1802.1 (arent) 
PREMIUMS offered by the Society, instituted at London, for 
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 
for the Year 1802. 
TO THE PUBLIC. 
HE chief objects of the SocreTy areto promote the Arts, Manufactures,.and Commerce 
of this kingdom, by giving rewards for all such useful Inventions, Discoveries and Im- 
provements, (though not mentioned in this book,) as tend to that purpose; and, in pursuance of 
this plan, the Society have already expended near FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS, advanced by 
yoluntary subscriptions of their members, and legacies bequeathed. 
The manner in which this money has been distributed may be seen by applying to the Secre- 
tary or other officers of the Socrery, attheir house in the Adelphi. The-Register of the Pre-~ 
miums and Bounties they have given will shew the very great advantages which the Public have 
derived from this Institution. 
The meetings of the Society are held every Wednesday, at seven o’clock in the evening, from 
the fourth Wednesday in October to the first Wednesday in Fune. The several Committees meet 
on other evenings in the week during the session. 
In order still farther to promote the laudable views of this Socrery, it may be necessary to 
explain the mode by which its members continue to be elected. 
Each member has the privilege, at any weekly meeting of the SocreTy, of proposing any 
person who is desirous to become a member, provided such proposal is signed by three mem- 
bers of the SocreTy. 
Peers of the Realm or Lords of Parliament are, on their being proposed, immediately ballotted 
for; and the name, with the addition and place of abode, of every other person proposing tu be- 
come a member, is to be delivered to the Secretary, who is to read the same, and properly insert 
the name in a list, which is to be hung up inthe SocreTy’s room until the next meeting; at 
which time such person shall be bailotted for; and, if two-thirds of the members, then voting, 
ballot in his favour, he shall be deemied a ferpetual Ni onber, upon payment of Twenty Guineas at 
one payment; or a subscribing member, upon payment of any sum not less than Two Guinees 
annually. 
Every member is entitled to vote and be concerned in all the transactions of the SocteTy, and 
to attend and vote at the several Committees. He has also the privilege of recommending two 
persons as Auditors, at the weekly meeting of the Society; and, by addressing a note to the 
Housekeeper, of introducing his friends to examine the various models, machines, and productions, 
in different branches of arts, manufactures, and commerce, for which rewards have been bestowed; 
_ and to inspect the magnificent series of moral and historical paintings so happily contrived and 
completed by James BARRY, Esq. which, with some valuable busts and statues, decorate the 
Great Room. He has likewise the use of a valuable Library ; and is entitled to the annual Vo- 
lume of the Soctery’s Transactions, 
The time appointed for admission to the paintings or models, i is from ten to twoo’clock, Sun- 
days and Wednesdays zie 
and silver fir, with or without screens of Scotch 
fir, adapted to the soil, and intended for timber 
trees, between the Ist of October, 1801, and the 
1st of April, 1802, the gold medal. 
2. For the second greatest quantity of land, not 
less than seven acres; the silver medal, or twenty 
guineas. 
3. For the third greatest quantity of land, not 
less than five acres, the silver medal, A partie 
cular account of the methods used in making and 
PREMIUMS IN AGRICULTURE. 
HE public are requested to take notice that 
the Society abide by the premiums offer- 
ed in the 18th volume of their Transactions, for 
the setting of acorns, and planting of timber-trees, 
although ‘such premiums are not here reprinted. 
Class 1, FoRrsT-TREEs. 
To the person who shall have inclosed and 
planted, or set, the greatest number of acres (not 
less than ten) of Jand, that is incapable of being 
_ ploughed, such as the borders of rivers, the sides 
-of precipices, and any land that has too many 
rocks, or that is not calculated to repay the ex- 
pence of tillage, owing to the stiffness or poverty 
of the soil, the surface being too hilly, mountain- 
Ous, or otherwise unfit for tillage, with the best 
Sorts of forest-trees, namely, oak, Spanish ches- 
nuts, ash, elm, beech, alder, willow, larch, spruce 
‘MontuLy Mac. N°, 87, 
managing the plantations, the nature of the soil, 
the probable number of each sort of plants, to- 
gether with proper certificaies that they were in 
a healthy and thriving state two years at least 
after making the plantation, to be delivered to 
the SocreTy on or before the first Tuesday in 
November, 1805. 
4, 5, 6. pa same premiums are extended 
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