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and accounts should be kept. 7. The premium system 

 to be remodelled. 8. Money premiums to be given 

 up. Instead, books on geometry, &c., and portfolios, 

 with the stamp of the Society and inscription, to be 

 substituted. 9. Artists of repute might be appointed 

 professors or visitors. 10. Good drawings for sale are 

 wanted, n. Catalogue of paintings and drawings to 

 be made out. 12. Really good pictures by ancient 

 masters to be purchased ; ^200 to be spent on furnish- 

 ing the ornament and architectural schools with good 

 drawings and engravings. 13. In future, all models 

 to be provided at the Society's expense. 14. The 

 Committee to use the funds most advantageously for 

 the benefit of the schools. 15. The masters' salaries 

 to be increased. 16. The new figure master to be 

 the best possible, and advertised for in England, if 

 necessary. 17. As the figure school is for the higher 

 branches of art, none to be admitted to it without a 

 probationary drawing. 18. This school must be raised 

 to importance, and made capable of attaining the 

 highest walks. 19. A living figure to be ready to sit 

 nearly all the year round. 20. Lectures on the theory 

 and practice of painting, and the anatomy of bone and 

 muscle, to come later. 2 1 . A school of engraving to 

 be constituted later. 22. Instructions in modelling 

 and sculpture to be given. 23. A school for females 

 to be a subject for future consideration. 24. Boys 

 under 1 3 not to be admitted to the architectural school. 

 25. Pupils in the architectural school to be instructed 

 in the principles of practical geometry, and how to draw 

 by scale. 266. A higher school of architecture might 

 be instituted, wherein perspective might be fully 

 taught, and private pupils admitted on payment. 27. 

 The same might be made to apply to the other two 

 schools. 28. A room for the continual exhibition of 



