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under the direction of the managers, for executing such work proi> 

 erly and at reasonable prices. And, to prevent mistakes, all copies 

 or drawings that shall be made of the machines, models, and plans 

 lodged in the repository of the Institution, will be examined by per- 

 sons appointed for that purpose, and marked with the seal or stamp 

 of the Institution. 



2do. Tradesmen and artificers employed in executing any work 

 after any of the models lodged in the repository will, on the recom- 

 mendation of a proprietor or of a subscriber for life or for one 

 year, be allowed free access to such model as often as shall be nec- 

 essary ; and any workman or artificer so recommended, who shall 

 be willing to furnish to buyers any article exhibited in the reposi- 

 tory that is in his line of business, will be allowed to place a speci- 

 men of such article of his manufacture in the repository, with his 

 name and place of abode attached to it, together with the price at 

 which he can furnish it, such specimen having been examined and 

 approved by the managers. 



Of the Government and Management of the Institution. 



xmo. All the affairs of the Institution will be directed and gov- 

 erned by nine managers, chosen by, and from among, the proprie- 

 tors of the Institution. 



2do. For the greater convenience of the proprietors, and to spare 

 them the trouble of a general meeting, all the elections of mana- 

 gers, after the first, will be made by ballot, by means of sealed lists 

 of names sent in by the proprietors individually to the Institution, 

 which lists will be opened, and the result of the election ascertained 

 and published by the united committees of the managers and of 

 the visitors for the time being. 



T^tio. The first set of managers will be chosen by the first fifty or 

 more original subscribers, at a general meeting of them to be held 

 for that purpose ; and of this first set of managers three will be 

 chosen to serve th-ee years, three to serve two years, and three to 

 serve one year, reckoned from the 25th day of March, 1799. 



i^to. All managers, as well those of the first set as others, will be 

 capable of being re-elected without limitation, 



t^to. The elections of managers to be made annually on the 

 25th day of the month of March;* and fourteen days previous to 



* If any other season should be thought more convenient for these elections, 

 it will of course be chosen instead of that here proposed. 



