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cbI right to afliil at the particular iittings of each elafs, and 

 may deliver ledtures when they are requeued. 



They (hall re-unite four times in a year into one body, to 

 communicate their proceedings. 



They {hall eleft in common the librarian and under libra- 

 rian of the inlHtute, as well as all thofe agents who belong 

 to the iiiilitute in common. 



Each clafs fhall prefent for the approbation of the govern- 

 ment, the particular ftatutes and regulations of its internal 

 jolice. 



X. Each clafs fltall hold one pubhc fitting ever)- year, at 

 which the other three fliall aiTill. 



XI. The inftitute (hall receive annually from the public 

 treafury ijoo fr. for each of its non-afrociated members, 

 6000 fr. for each of its perpetual fecretaries ; and for its 

 expences, a fum which (liall be fi.\ed every year, upon the 

 demand of the inftitute, and comprifed in the eftimates of 

 the minifter of tlie interior. 



XII. There niall be an adminiftrative comrrittee of the in- 

 ftitute, compofed of five members, two from the firfl: clafs, 

 and one from each of the others, named by their refpeftive 

 clafTcs. 



This committee fliall regulate in the general fittings pre- 

 fcribed by art. IX. all that relates to the adminitlration, to 

 the general cxpenccs of the inftitute, and to the divifion of 

 its funds between the four claires. , 



Each clafs (hall afterwards regulate the application of the 

 fund& afligned to it for its expences, as well as all that con- 

 cerns the printing and publiftiing its memoirs. 



XIII. Every year the clafies fliall diftribute prizes, the 

 number and value of which (hall be regulated as follows: 



The firft clafs, a prize of 3C00 francs. 



The fecond and third clafs, each a prize of 1500 firancs. 



The fonnh clafs, grand prizes of painting, fculpture, 

 archileiflure, and mufical compofition. Thofe who fliall have 

 gained one of the grand prizes (hall be fent to Rome, and 

 maintained at the cxpence of government. 



The above decree was followed by a fecond, appointing 

 the members of the different claffes, and regulating the days 

 cf their meeting. 



The fittings of the firft clafs are lo be held every Monday ; 

 thofe of the fecond clafs every Wednefday ; thofe of the 

 third every Friday, and thofe of the fourth every Saturday. 



Thefe fittings are to be held in the fame place, and to laft 

 from three o'clock till five. 



Institutes, Irjluuta, in the Cm'tl Laii', a book, 

 containing the; elements, or principles of the Roman law ; 

 and which conftitutcs the laft part of the corpus juris 

 civVlis. 



The inflitutcs are a compendium, or fummary of the 

 whole body of civil law, in four books, compofed by Tri- 

 bonianus, Theophilus, and Dorotheus, by order of the 

 emperor Juftinian, for the life of young ftudents ; who, 

 having the firft elements of the whole profellion in this 

 little treatifc, might the fooner gain a competent knowledge 

 of it without being difcouraged by the bulk of the other 

 books. 



Thefe inftitutes proceed, with no contemptible method, 

 from I. " Perfons" to II. " Things ;" and from things to 

 III. Adion.=i;" and the article IV. of " Private Wrongs " 

 is terminated by thel princi;;les of " Criminal Law." For 

 an abridged account of tliefe intlitutes, f'e Gibbon's Decl! 

 and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. vii. See alfo Civil 

 Law 



Institutes likewife denote a fyftcm of law, or rules in 

 any fcience. 



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INSTITUTION, in a general lenfe, the aft of ordain- 

 ing, founding, or eftablifhing anything. 



Thus we fay, Mofes inftituted the ceremonies of the old 

 law ; Jefus Chrift inftituted the facraments of the new. 



In.stitution, in the Canon and Common Laiv, is the aft 

 of the biihop, or of one commifTioned by him, whereby a 

 clerk, after the patron's prefertation has been admitted, is 

 inverted with the fpiritaalities of a rectory, or vicarage: for 

 by inftitution the care of t!ie fouls of the parifli is committed 

 to 'lis charge. See Present.^tion. 



The clerk kn -els down before the bi(hop, whilft. he pro- 

 nounces thefe words of inftitution (inftituo te reftorem 

 ecclefis de A. B. cum cura anim.arum, & accipe curam 

 tuam & meam) ; and the clerk holds the written inilru- 

 ment, with the epifcopal feai annexed, in hie hand, during 

 the ceremony. 



Before the clerk is inftituted, he muft fubfcribe the thirty- 

 nine articles of rehgion, in the prefence of the ordinary, or 

 his fubftitute ; and this fubfcription m.uft be without referve, 

 exception, or quahfication ; elfe his inftitution is, ipfo faSa, 

 void and null, and the church ftill vacant. 13 Eliz. c. 12. — 

 At the fame time the ordinary requires the clerk to fubfcribe 

 the other two articles mentioned in the 36th canon about the 

 king's fupremacy, and the hwfulnefs and ufe of the litur- 

 gy : the clerk muft alfo, before inftitution, fubfcribe to that 

 part of i!ie declaration enjoined by the aft of uniformity, 

 14 Car. II. c. 24, v'fz. " I will conform to the Liturgy 

 of England, as by law eftablifned."— Before inftitution, he 

 mull alfo take the oaths m.entioned in the firft ftatute of 

 William and Mary, c. 8. inftead of the former oaths of 

 allegiance and fupremacy, required by ftat. i Eliz. and then 

 he muft take the oath againft fimony, enjoined by the 40th 

 canon, and the oath of canonical obedience ; and if it is a 

 vicarage, the oath of perfonal refidence ; and he is to 

 have certificates given him of his fubfcribing the declaration 

 contained in the aft of uniformity, in Engiifh, in a diftinft 

 inftrum.cnt, under the hand and feal of the bifhop ; and of 

 his other fubfcriptions and oaths, in Latin. 



The clerk ought by a'l means to have witnelTes of his infti- 

 tution, his taking the oaths, making fubfcriptions, &c. and 

 therefore he (hould make fome prefent to write their names on 

 the back of his inftruments, and make memorandums who 

 they are, and where they live. 



The church, by inftitution, is full againft all perfons but 

 the king, but it is not full againft the king, till induftion ; 

 aid the clerk by it may enter upon the parfonage houfe and 

 glebe, and take the tithes ; but he cannot let or grant them, 

 nor fue f jr them, if they be refufed to be paid till he be 

 indufted. 



After inftitution, the clerk is to receive a written mandate 

 from the ordinary to the archdeacon, or other proper per- 

 fon, in order to his induftion ; without which he has not a 

 full right to his temporalities, unlefs the benefice be a dona- 

 tive. See Induction. 



Institution, Jfncan, a focicty formed by the friends of 

 the Abolition of the Slave-trade affembled on the 14th of 

 April 1807, and eftabhfhed on the fubfcquent 15th of Jnly. 

 The rcfolutions adopted by the conllitilent meeting, as 

 the bafis of the a(rocialion, are as follow : i. That tliis 

 meeting is deeply impreifed with a fenfc of the enormous 

 wrongs which the natives of Africa have fuftered in their in- 

 tcrcourfe with Europe ; and from a defire to repair thofe 

 wrongs, as well as from general feelings of benevolence, is 

 anxious to adopt fuch meafures as are bcft calculated to pro- 

 mote their civilization and happincfs. 2. That the approach- 

 ing ceflation of the flaye -trade, hitherto carried on by Great 

 Britain, America, and Denmark, will, in a confiderabie dc- 



gree, 



