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APPENDIX I. 



(Title Page.) RULES, established for the government of the 

 LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY of Manchester; 

 and a List of the Members. Manchester: Printed by Charles 

 Wheeler, 1782. 



RULES, established for the government of the LITERARY and 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY of Manchester. 



1. THAT this Society be called the LITERARY and PHILO- 

 SOPHICAL SOCIETY of MANCHESTER. 



2. That the number of Members be limited to fifty : but this 

 limitation shall not preclude any number of gentlemen, distinguished 

 for their literary or philosophical abilities, and residing at such 

 distances from Manchester as to prevent their attendance at the usual 

 meetings of the Society, from being elected honorary Members; pro- 

 vided the mode of recommendation and election be the same, in 

 other respects, as that of the ordinary Members, hereafter to be 

 described. 



3. That every Candidate for admission into the Society shall be 

 proposed by at least three Members, who shall sign a Certificate of 

 his being, from their knowledge of him or his writings, a fit person 

 to be admitted into the Society ; which certificate shall be hung up 

 during four successive meetings of the Society, in the room where 

 the meetings are held ; and the name of the Candidate shall be read 

 up by the Secretary, at each meeting of the Society, during that 

 period. 



4. That every election of a new Member into the Society shall 

 be decided by ballot. That no less a number than thirteen 

 Members shall proceed to election, and that a majority of votes 

 of the Members present in favour of the Candidate, shall be requisite 

 for his admission. The President to have a casting voice, if the 

 number of votes be equal. 



