130 THE EAELY HISTORY OF [CHAP. III. 



first fifty or more original subscribers, at a general 

 meeting of them to be held for that purpose ; and of this 

 first set of managers three will be chosen to serve three 

 years, three to serve two years, and three to serve one year, 

 reckoned from the 25th day of March, 1799. 



4<to. All managers, as well those of the first set as 

 others, will be capable of being re-elected without limita- 

 tion. 



5to. The elections of managers to be made annually on 

 the 25th day of the month of March, 1 and fourteen days 

 previous to each election the managers for the time being 

 will send to each proprietor individually a printed list 

 containing the names of all such of the proprietors as shall 

 have offered or consented to be candidates for the places 

 among the managers that are to be filled up. On this 

 printed list, which each proprietor will receive, he will 

 indicate the persons to whom he gives his suffrage by 

 making a mark with a pen and ink in the form of a small 

 cross just before the names of those persons ; and, this 

 being done, he will seal up the list without signing it and 

 send it to the Institution, directed ' To the United Com- 

 mittee of the Managers and of the Visitors.' In order 

 that these lists may be recognised on their being returned 

 to the Institution, they will all be marked with the stamp 

 of the Institution previous to their being issued or sent to 

 the proprietors. And, for still further security, each pro- 

 prietor will be requested to send in his or her sealed list of 

 names under an additional cover, signed with his or her 

 own name, which additional cover will be taken off, and all 

 the sealed lists mixed together in an urn, previous to any 

 of them being opened an arrangement that will effec- 

 tually prevent the vote of any individual subscriber being 

 known. 



1 If any other season should be thought more convenient for these 

 elections, it will of course be chosen instead of that here proposed. 



