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Institute, It may name 36 correspondents national or foreign. 

 National, of VI. The foreign associated members shall have a de- 

 "" liber.itive voice only on subjects of science, literature, 

 ~~-~* and the arts ; they shall not form part of any section, 

 nor interfere in any usage. 



VII. The present actual national associates of the 

 ute shall form part of the one hundred and ninety- 

 six correspondents attached to the classes of the scien- 

 ces, belles lettres, and fine arts. 



Correspondents may not assume the title of members 

 of the institute. 



They shall lose that of correspondent when they shall 

 be domiciliated at Paris. 



VIII. Nominations to vacant places shall be made 

 by each class in which the vacancy happens ; the per- 

 sons elected shall be confirmed by the First Consul. 



I X. The members of the four classes shall enjoy a 

 reciprocal right to assist at the particular sittings of 

 each class, and may deliver lectures when they are re- 

 quested. 



They shall re-unite four tiroes in a year into one 

 body, to communicate their proceedings. 



They shall elect in common the librarian and under 

 librarian of the institute, a* well as all those agents who 

 belong to the institute in common. 



Each class shall- present for the approbation of the 

 government, the particular statutes and regulations of 

 its internal police. 



I'.ach class shall bold one public sitting every year, 

 at which the other three shall assist. 



XI. The institute shall receive annually from the 

 public treasury 15OO fr. for each of its non-associated 

 members, 6000 fr. for each of its perpetual secretaries ; 

 and for its expences, a sum which shall be fixed every 



n, upon the demand of the institute, and comprised 

 le estimate* of the minister of the interior. 



XII. There shall be an administrative committee of 

 the institute, composed of Are members, two from the 

 first class, and one from each of the others, named 

 by their repective rliiKt 



Th : s committee shall regulate in the general sittings 

 prescribed by art IX. all that relates to the administra- 

 te general expencen <.!' ;'.. iintitute, and to 

 the division ol l>etwcen the four classes. 



I'arh .!*. -hall afterwards regulate the application 

 of the funds assigned to it for its expences, as well as all 

 that concerns the printing and publishing its men.oir*. 



XIII. The classes shall annually distribute prizes, 

 thus regulated : 



The first class, a prize of 3000 francs. 

 The 2d and 3d class, each a prixe of 1500 francs. 

 The fourth class, grand prixe* of painting, sculpture, 

 architecture, and musical composition. Those who 

 : one of the grand prizes shall be sent to Rome, and 

 maintained at the expence of government. 



Rssrgniaa- On the 2 1 it March, 18 1C, an order was issued by 

 ioa of UN i Louis X \ 1 1 1 |, r new-modelling the Institute, of which 

 '" the following is an abstract: 



1. The INSTITUTE shall be composed of Jour acade- 

 mift, viz. 



Ossaul i*. The French Academy. 



The Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Let- 

 tres. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences. 

 The Royal Academy of the Fine Arts. 



2. The academies are under the direct and special 

 protection of the king. 



3. Every academy shall have an independent regime, 

 and the free disposal of the funds which belong to it. 



*. The agency, the secretariat, the library, and the 



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other collections of the Institute, shall remain common Institute- 

 to the four academies. National. 



5. The property common to the four academies, and vj""*^ 

 the common funds which belong to them, shall be ma- 

 naged under the authority of the Secretary of State for 

 the Interior, by a commission of eight members, of 

 which two shall be taken from each academy. These 

 commissioners shall be elected annually, and shall be 

 always re-eligible. 



<>'. The property and funds of each academy shall be 

 managed in its name by the boards or commissions, 

 instituted for this purpose. 



7. The academies shall hold a common public sitting 

 on the 24th April, the day on which the Bourbons re- 

 turned to France. 



8. The members of each academy may be elected to 

 the three other academies. 



9- The FRENOI ACADEMY shall reserve its ancient French aci- 

 statutes, with such modifications as may be thought deuijr. 

 necessary. 



10. It shall be composed of thirty-eight members. 



1 1. The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres Rojml aca- 

 shall preserve the organization of the actual rules of Afm 1 a ' in " 

 the third class of the Institute. '"'l'" J ' 



12. It shall be composed of thirty-stvf n members. 



13. The Royal Academy of Sciences shall preserve Royal aca- 

 the organization and the distribution into sections of the demy of 

 fir,t class of the Institute. Kienco. 



1 t. The Royal Academy of the Fine Arts shall pre- Royal aca- 

 serve the organization and the distribution into sections demy of die 

 of the fourth class of the Institute. fine am. 



15. It shall be composed as follows: 



Painting 14 members. 



Sculpture 8 members. 



Architecture 8 members. 



Engraving 4 members. 



Mu-ical composition . . . 6 members. 



16. There shall be added to the Royal Academy of General re- 

 Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, and to the Royal Aca- gelation*. 

 demy of Science*, a class of free academicians to the 

 number of 10 to each of these two academies. 



1 7. The free academicians shall have no other privi- 

 lege than that of the right of attendance. They .-hall 

 enjoy the -i.me rights as the other academicians, and 

 shall be elected according to the uual forms. 



18. The ancient honorary members and academic!, 

 ans, both of the Royal Academy of Sciences and of the 

 Royal Academy of Inscription and Belles Lcitrcs, 

 shall be free academicians of the academy to which they 

 belong. 



These academicians shall make the necessary elec- 

 tions for completing the number often free academi- 

 cian* in each. 



19. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts shall likewise 

 have a class of free academicians, of which the number 

 shall be determined by a particular regulation upon the 

 proposition of the academy iUelf. 



20. The Minister of the Interior slull submit to the 

 king for his approbation the modifications which may 

 be thought necessary in the regulations of the first, 

 third, and fourth classes of the Institute, for adapting the 

 said regulations to the Royal Academy of Sciences, to 

 the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, 

 and to the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts. 



21. All the decrees and regulations which contain 

 nothing contrary to the regulations of the present or- 

 donnancc -h.ill ifc maintained. 



The following is a correct statement of the volumes 

 of memoirs published by the Institute of France: 



