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ceding years, up to the 12th of July immediately preceding such 

 selection, 



3. In the selection of these Journals the Founder proposes that the 

 Medical Commissioners of the Navy shall, out of the whole Journals 

 delivered to them in the course of the intervals above specified, make 

 choice of such as in their Judgment possess the highest degree of 

 merits in number not more than ten nor less than five, which shall bo 

 transmitted to ihe Founder during his lifetime, for his selection out of 

 the number so sent, of two^ or one in case there should not be another 

 of sufficient merit, the authors or author of which, in his judgment, 

 may be most deserving of the prizes. And after his decease the said 

 Journals to be conveyed to the President of the College of Physicians, 

 whoj after due examination, is to communicate them to the President 

 of the College of Surgeons, and after proper deliberation the said 

 Presidents are to call to their assistance the Senior Medical Commis- 

 sioner of the Royal Navy, and jointly with him select from the said 

 Journals one or two, the author or authors of which, in the opinion of 

 the mojority, possess the highest merit, and become thereby entitled 

 to the Medal or Medals. The Medal or Medals when adjudged are 

 to be put into the hands of the attending Medical Commissioner, to 



be by him presented to the successful candidate or candida^(^s. All 

 the Journals of the first selection to be returned into the custody of 



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4, In case of the impossibility of performing the before-mentioned 

 duties, through the illness or unavoidable absence of the parties 

 described, the duty is to devolve on the next in rank ; that is, 

 on the Senior Censor of the College of Physicians, the Ylce- 

 Fresident of ihe College of Surgeons, or the Junior Medical 

 Commissioner. 



6, In case it should happen at any of the periods of adjudication 

 that in the opinion of the Founder, or of the two Presidents alter his 

 decease, there shall not be found a Journal or Journals of adequate 

 merit to entitle any candidate to the prize, the Medal or Medals shall 

 be wiiaheid until the next period of adjudication ^ and the unadjadicated 

 Medals are to be conferred on such as may possess sufficient merit 

 over and above those subject to adjudication at that period. But this 

 regulation is to be so construed and luxiited that no more than four 

 prizes shall be adjudicated at any one period ; and if the unadjudged 





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