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fair to be of general use, and to facilitate the general introduction 

 of them ; and to excite and assist the ingenious and the enter- 

 prising by the diffusion of science, and by awakening a spirit of 

 inquiry. 



\Qmo. The ordinary meetings of the managers for the despatch 

 of the current business of the Institution will be held weekly, namely, 

 on every ' , at the hour of ; and extraordinary 



meetings will be held as often as shall be found necessary. 



\\rno. Any three or more of the managers being present at any 

 ordinary or at an extraordinary meeting, the others having been 

 duly summoned, to be a quorum. 



\2mo. The managers will be authorized to make all such stand- 

 ing orders and regulations as they shall deem necessary to the 

 preservation of order and decorum in the Institution, as also such 

 regulations respecting the manner of transacting the business of the 

 Institution as they shall think proper and convenient, or that may 

 be necessary in order to regulate the responsibility of the mana- 

 gers for their acts and deeds : all such standing orders and regula- 

 tions must, however, in order to their being valid, be approved by 

 six at least of the managers, and they must all be published and 

 made known to all the proprietors. 



Of the Committee of Visitors. 



\mo. The committee of visitors will be composed of nine per- 

 sons, the first set to be elected three months after the opening of 

 the Institution. 



zdo. Three persons of the nine of which this committee will 

 consist will be chosen for three years, three of them to serve two 

 years, and three of them to serve one year, reckoned from the 25th of 

 March, 1799. 



$tio. Any three or more of the members of this committee being 

 present at any meeting of the committee, the others having been 

 duly summoned, to make a quorum. 



4/0. It will be the business of this committee formally to inspect 

 and examine the Institution, and every part and detail of it, once 

 every year, namely, on the 25th day of the month of March, and to 

 give a printed account or report to the proprietors, and to the sub- 

 scribers of all denominations, of its state and condition, and of the 

 degree and manner in which it is found to answer the important 

 ends for which it was designed. This committee will also once 



