Life of Cozint Rumford. 393 



Each proprietor was to be "an hereditary* governor 

 of the Institution," holding a perpetually transferable 

 share in its property, having a voice in the election of 

 its managers and visitors, and receiving two transfera- 

 ble tickets admitting to every part of the establishment 

 and to all the lectures and experiments. The consent of 

 the managers, though not necessary to the holding and 

 use of the privileges of proprietorship when transferred 

 by inheritance to a new possessor, should nevertheless be 

 requisite when the transfer is made by sale or donation. 

 The recommendations of proprietors should be sufficient 

 for securing admission, when there is room, for all or- 

 derly persons who may wish to attend the Institution. 



Each subscriber for life should receive one ticket, not 

 transferable, securing free admission to every part of 

 the establishment and to all lectures and experiments. 

 An annual subscriber should have the same privileges 

 for a single year, and might at any time become a sub- 

 scriber for life by paying eight additional guineas. 

 Proprietors and subscribers of all classes were to be 

 equally entitled to have drawings or copies made at 

 their own expense, for themselves or for their friends, 

 of all models in the repository, and workmen and 

 workshops were to be provided, under the direction of 

 the managers, to execute such orders properly and 

 reasonably; the copies thus made of all machines, 

 models, and plans to be authenticated by the seal or 

 stamp of the Institution. Workmen employed on 

 these orders were to have free access to their models, 

 and, with the approval of the managers, might commit to 

 the repository any specimen article of their own manu- 

 facture, with their address, price, &c. 



The Institution was to be governed by nine man- 



