AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



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Of 



n here 



of 



for Nomination. 



Members or A sociate Fell «■> 



shall be refen 1 io tlie Com 



CHAPTER X. 



Op Amendments op the Statutes. 



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Statutes, or additions to them, shall be referred to a com 



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mittee, and, on their report at a subsequent meeting, shall require for enactment a majority of two 



thirds of flip mfitnbfirs nrp.spint, nnA at laoot oiMifoan oAR.*™^;™. ~~* — 



Votes 



of two thirds of the members present. They may be suspended by a unanimous vote. 



CHAPTER XL 



Op Literary Performances. 



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Academy will not express its judgment on literary or scientific memoirs 

 to it, or included in its publications. 



RUMFORD PREMIUM. 



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conformity with the last will of Bem'amin Count 



fund 



Ame 



my of Arts and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court 



ed in 



carrying into effect the general charitable intent and purpose oi ^oum numiuiu, «, «• 

 his said will, the Academy is empowered to make from the income of said fund, as it : 

 at any annual meeting, an award of a gold and silver medal, being together of the intrinsic value 

 of three hundred dollars, as a premium, to the author of any important discovery or useful im- 

 provement in light or in heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any 



American 

 Vcadeiny 



promote the good of 



such discovery and improvement, if the Academy see fit so to do, a snm of money not cxcccd.ng 



three himdrP.rl dollars 



