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to accumulate ; until hj additions of other means, the ob- 

 ject intended can be effectuated. 



The names, and amount and description of donations, of 

 all citizens contributing pecuniary or other donations, of 

 any amount or description whatever, shall be re.^istered, in 

 a roll kept for that special purpose. They will merit and 

 receive the thanks of tlie society, for the patriotism and 

 public spirit, evinced by their thus affoiding the means of 

 accomplishing the objects of the institution. 



XII. 



New members, whether resident or honorary, shall be 

 elected by ballot. And the secretary shall issue notit^e to 

 each person, of his being elected, to the following purport 

 — The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agricidtnre, have 

 elected a fresident or honorary J member, in 



teslimony of their confidence in his capacity and inclination 

 to promote the objects of their institution. 



XIII. 



All elections and appointments shall be between eight 

 and nine o'clock in the evening, at one of the stated meet- 

 ings of the society. And no person shall be elected a mem- 

 ber, whether resident or honorary, unless, at a preceding 

 stated meeting, he shall have been openly proposed, and 

 such nomination duly entered on the minutes of the society. 

 The nomination and election to be in the absence of the can- 

 didate. 



XIV. 



The society shall annually propose prizes upon interest- 

 ing subjects, relative to actual experimenis and impiove- 

 ments, and for the best pieces written on pioposed subjects. 

 And in order more effc'ctually to disseminate the knowledge 

 of useful discoveries and improvements in husbandry, the 

 society v»ill, from time to time, publish collections of me- 

 moirs and observations, selected from such communications 

 as shall be made to them. To promote these views, the 



