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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
6. The copyright of all Essays gaming Prizes shall belong to the Society, 
who shall accordingly have the power to publish the whole or any part of such 
Essays ; and the other Essays will be returned on the application of the 
writers ; but the Society do not make themselves responsible for their loss. 
7. The Society are not bormd to award a prize unless they consider one of 
the Essays deserving of it. 
8. In all reports of exijeriments the expenses shall be accurately detailed. 
9. The imperial weights and measure* only are those by which calculations 
are to be made. 
10. Xo prize shall be given for any Essay which has been already in print. 
11. Prizes may be taken in money or plate, at the option of the successful 
candidate. 
12. All Essays must be addressed to the Secretary, at the house of the 
Society, on or before the 1st of March, 1863. 
