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each election the managers for the time being will send to each 

 proprietor individually a printed list containing the names of all 

 such of the proprietors as shall have offered or consented to be can- 

 didates for the places among the managers that are to be filled up. 

 On this printed list, which each proprietor will receive, he will indi- 

 cate the persons to whom he gives his suffrage, by making a mark 

 with a pen and ink, in the form of a small cross, just before the 

 names of those persons r and, this being done, he will seal up the 

 list without signing it, and send it to the Institution, directed " To 

 the United Committees of the Managers and of the Visitors." In 

 order that these lists may be recognized on their being returned to 

 the Institution, they will all be marked with the stamp of the Insti- 

 tution, previous to their being issued or sent to the proprietors. 

 And, for still further security, each proprietor will be requested to 

 send in his or her sealed list of names under an additional cover, 

 signed with his or her own name, which additional cover will be 

 taken off, and all the sealed lists mixed together in an urn, previous 

 to any of them being opened ; an arrangement that will effectually 

 prevent the vote of any individual subscriber being known. 



dto. The managers are to serve in that office without any pay or 

 emolument, or pecuniary advantage whatever ; and by their accept- 

 ance of their office they shall be deemed solemnly to pledge them- 

 selves to the proprietors of the Institution and to the public for the 

 faithful discharge of their duty as managers, and also for their strict 

 adherence to the fundamental principles of the government of the 

 Institution as established at its formation. 



7^1?. The managers are to take care that the property of the 

 Institution, as far as it shall be practicable, be insured against acci- 

 dents by fire. 



^vo. The managers will cause exact and detailed accounts to be 

 kept of all the property belonging to the Institution, as also of all 

 receipts and expenditures. They will also keep regular minutes of 

 all their proceedings, and will take care to preserve the most exact 

 order and the strictest economy in the management of all the affairs 

 and concerns of the Institution. 



(^mo. The managers are never, on any pretext, or in any manner 

 whatever, to dispose of any money or property of any kind belong- 

 ing to the Institution in premiums, as the design or object of the 

 Institution is not to give rewards to the authors of ingenious 

 inventions, but to diffuse the knowledge of such improvemetits as bid 



