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per anniim^ or Ten Guineas on being admitted, towards 

 effecting the objeds of the inftitution. Every member 

 to be at full liberty to withdraw his name, on giving no- 

 tice to the Secretary in writing, at leaft one month pre- 

 vious to the general meeting to be annually held for the 

 purpofe of choofmg new members, and of inquiring into 

 the progrefs made by the Society. 



The money ariiing from the fubfcriptions of the mem- 

 bers to be paid into the hands of a Treafurer, and put 

 under the management of a Prefident, a Vice-prefident, 

 £ind fifteen Directors, to be chofen annually, by ballot, 

 at the general meeting. The Committee to have power 

 to tranfact all the ordinary bufiinefG of the Society, in con- 

 formity to fuch general principles as may be laid down 

 at the annual meeting. The Committee to be account- 

 able to the Society for their proceedings ; an account of 

 Vv^hich fnall be annually printed for the ufe of the mem- 

 bers of the Society, and for thg information of the pub- 

 lic. 



Thofe who contribute Two Guineas per an?tum, o? 

 Twenty Guineas at their admiiTion, to be called Extraor- 

 dinary Members ; and, in the event of an eqiiality, tliQ 

 «-iember who was firfl admitted into the Society amongft 

 thefe members, to have a double vote, in all cafes where 

 any doubt as to the majority of votes occurs. 



The above to be confidered as fundamental rules of the 

 Society : All other fubordinate regulations to be left un- 

 decided until the Society is conflituted, when thefe mat- 

 ters fliall be adjufted according to the opinio;i of the ma- 

 (ority of the members met to deliberate on the fubject. 



It is propofed, that Sir John Sinclair, as Convener and 

 Chairman of the Committee on Wool, Ihall tranfmit the 

 report he has di'awn up for the ufe of the Highland So- 

 pictj, to fuch perfons, whether in Scotland or England, 

 •^s are the mcfl likely to encourage fo ufefal an under- 



taking. 



