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Tenth. All essays must be clearly and legibly written on only 
one side of the paper. 
Leleventh. The literary property of such essays shall be in their 
authors, subject to the right of the Society to publish the crowned 
essays in its Transactions or Proceedings. 
Twelfth. A Standing Committee, to consist of six members and 
the Treasurer of the Society, shall be appointed by the President, 
which shall continue in office during the pleasure of the Society, 
and any vacancies that may occur in said Committee shall be filled 
by new appointment by the President. 
Thirteenth, The said Committee shall have charge of all matters 
connected with the management of this endowment and the invest- 
ment of the same, and shall make such general rules for publishing 
the terms upon which said prize shall be competed for, and the 
amount of the said prize, and, if it shall deem it expedient, desig- 
nate the subjects for competing essays. It shall report annually to 
the Society, on the first Friday in December, all its transactions, 
with an account of the investment of the Prize Fund, and of the 
income and expenditures thereof. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, 
RICHARD VAUX, 
EYENRY PHILLIPS, JR., 
Wituiam V. McKean, 
FuRMAN SHEPPARD, 
JosepH C. FRALEY. 
Philadelphia, November 20, 888. 
On motion of Mr. Vaux, the report, with all its resolutions, 
was unanimously adopted. 
On motion of Mr. Dudley, the Secretaries were directed ‘to 
have a sufficient number of copies of the same printed sepa- 
rately for general distribution. 
The Committee on an International Language presented the 
following report: 
Supplementary Report of the Committee Appointed to Consider an 
International Language. 
Your Comniittee desires to present a Report of Progress at this time 
with reference to its former observations on the adoption of an Inter- 
national Language and the success of the proposal of the Society to 
call an International Congress to consider this project. 
