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the managers, subject, however, to such partial modifications as 

 shall be by them found to be necessary or useful. 



VIII. Resolved, That the Earl of Morton, the Earl Spencer, 

 Sir Joseph Banks, and Mr. Pelham, or any one or more of 

 them, be requested to lay the Proposals for forming the Institu- 

 tion before HIS MAJESTY and the ROYAL FAMILY, and 

 before His Majesty's Ministers and the Great Officers of 

 State. 



IX. Resolved, That the Proposals for forming the Institution 

 be laid before the members of both Houses of Parliament, and 

 also before the members of His Majesty's Most Honourable 

 Privy Council, and the twelve Judges. 



Messrs. Cadell and Davies, booksellers in the Strand, having 

 generously offered to make a donation to the Institution of 500 

 copies of the original Proposals for forming the Institution, pub- 

 lished by Count Rumford, — 



X. Resolved, That the thanks of the managers be given to 

 Messrs. Cadell and Davies for this donation ; that it be accepted ; 

 and that these 500 copies of the Proposals be distributed among 

 such persons as the managers may think most likely to give their 

 assistance in forming the Institution. 



Although the author of the foregoing Proposals is 

 anxious to avoid every appearance of taking a liberty 

 with his readers, which he is very sensible he has no 

 right to take, and which would be improper on many 

 accounts, — that of soliciting as a favour their counte- 

 nance and support in carrying into execution the plan 

 he has had the honour to lay before them, — yet as it 

 is possible that some of those who may read these Pro- 

 posals may be disposed to give that assistance in some 

 one or more of the various ways in which it can be 

 given and received, to save trouble to those who may 



