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agreement or disagreement with experiments of the 

 like nature made in other places. 



12. That whatever Statute or Standing Order shall 

 be proposed to be made or repealed, the making or 

 repealing thereof shall be twice voted, and at two 

 several meetings. 



13. That the Society hold a correspondence with 

 other Societies and private persons. 



14. That all the works, journals, and transactions 

 which shall for the future be published by other 

 Societies and private persons, which shall contain any 

 useful improvement or discovery in Nature or Art, be 

 purchased, by the order of and at the charge of the 

 Society. 



15. That the Ordinary Meetings of the Society be 

 held once a fortnight, at such time and place as the 

 Society shall appoint, where none shall be present but 

 the members, without the leave of the Society. 



16. That a Committee of Arts shall sit once a 

 fortnight in such weeks wherein the Society do not 

 meet, to which Committee all members may come at 

 pleasure, and may admit artists, tradesmen, and husband- 

 men, to assist and inform the members, in such Arts 

 and improvements as shall be thought useful, and fit 

 to be encouraged and propagated in this kingdom. 



17. That it be the business of the Committee of 

 Arts, particularly to enquire into the state of Husbandry 

 and the several mechanic Arts in this kingdom, to 

 find out wherein they fall short of the Arts of other 

 countries, to consider what foreign improvements may 

 be introduced here, or new inventions set on foot, 

 by what means and at what expense this may be done. 



18. That models of the instruments of every Art 

 be procured, more especially of such instruments 

 which are made use of in other countries, and not 



