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on this audit will always make the first article in their 

 public annual reports. 



5fo. A person actually serving as a visitor will not be 

 eligible as a manager, nor can his name be put on the list 

 of candidates for that office till one whole year shall have 

 elapsed after he shall have ceased to belong to the Com- 

 mittee of Visitors. Those, however, who serve as visitors 

 will be capable of being re-elected on that Committee with- 

 out limitation. 



MISCELLANEOUS AETICLES. 



~Lmo. The managers will take care to procure, and to 

 exhibit in the repository as early as possible, models of all 

 such new and useful mechanical inventions and improve- 

 ments as shall, from time to time, be made in this or in any 

 other country. 



2do. All presents to the Institution, and all new purchases 

 and acquisitions of every kind, will be and remain the joint 

 property of the proprietors of the Institution and of their 

 heirs and assigns, and all the surplus of the income of the 

 Institution, over and above what shall be found necessary 

 for maintaining it and keeping it up, will be employed by 

 the managers in making additions to the local accommoda- 

 tion of the Institution, or in augmenting the collection of 

 models, or in making additions to the philosophical appa- 

 ratus, accordingly as the managers of the Institution for 

 the time being shall deem most useful. 



Stio. In order that the proprietors of the Institution and 

 the subscribers may have the earliest notice of all new 

 discoveries and useful improvements that shall be made, 

 from time to time, not only in this country, but also in all 

 the different parts of the world, the managers will employ 

 the proper means for obtaining, as early as possible, from 

 every part of the British Empire, and from all foreign 

 countries, authentic accounts of all such new and interest- 

 ing discoveries in the various branches of science, and in 

 arts and manufactures, and also of all such new and useful 



