586 General Conditions. [July 4, 
éach claimant thinks fit, such claimant sending with it a paper sealed up, having on the outside a 
cor responding mark, and, on the irside, the claimant’s name and address; and all candidates are 
’ to take notice, that no ciate for a premium will be attended to, unless fic conditions of the “nig 
yvertisement are fully complied with. 
No papers shall be opened, but such as shall gain premiums, unless where it appears to the 
Society absolutely necessary forthe determination of the claim; all the rest shall be returned un- 
opened with the matters to which they belong, if inquired after by the mark, within two years 5 
after which time, if not demanded, they shall iss publicly burnt, unopened, at some meeting of 
the Society. 
All models of machines, which obtain premiums or bounties, shall be the property of the So- 
ciety ; ; and, where a premium or bounty is given for any machine, a perfect model thereof spall 
be given to the Society. 
All the premiums of this Society are designed for Great Britain and Ireland, unless expressly 
mentioned to the.contrary. 
The claims shall be determined as soon as possible after the delivery of the specimens. 
No person shall receive any premium, bounty, or encouragement, from the Society, for any 
matter for which he has obtained, or purposes to obtain, a patent. 
A candidate for a premium, or a person applying for a bounty, being detected in any disinge- 
nuous method te impose on the Society, shall forfeit such bounty, and be deemed incapable of © 
obtaining any for the future. 
"The performances which each year obtain premiums or bounties are to remain with the So- 
ciety until after the public distribution of rewards. 
No membex of this Society shal] bea candidate for, or entitled to receive, any premium, 
bounty, or reward, ‘whatsoever, except the honorary medal of the Society. The candidates are, 
tn all cases, expected to furnish a particular account of the subject of theirclaims; and, where 
certificates are required to be produced in claim of premiums, they should be expressed, as nearly 
as possible, in the words of the respective advertisements, and be signed by persons who have a 
positive knowledge of the facts stated. 
Where premiums or bounties are obtained in consequence of specimens produced, the Society 
mean to retain stich part of those “Specimens as they may judge necessary, making a reasonable 
allowance for the same. 
No candidates shall be present at any meetings’ of the Society or committees, or nnackd at 
the Society’s rooms, after they have delivered in their claims, until such claims are adjudged, un- 
less summoned by the committee. 
NV. B. The Society farther invite the communications of scientific and practical men upon 
any of the subjects for which premiums are offered, although their experiments may have been 
conducted upon a smaller scale than the terms of each require, as they may afford ground for 
more extensive application, and thus materially forward the views of the Society and contribute 
to the advantage of the public. Such communications to be made by letter, addressed to the 
Society, and directed to Mr. CuaRLes TAYLOR, the Secretary, at the Society’s Office, in the pide 
phi, London. 
The models required by the Society should be upon the scale of one inch to a foot. The Win- 
chester bushel is the measure referred to for grain; and, as the acres of different districts vary in 
extent, it is necessary to observe, that the Society mean Statute Acres, of five and a half yards to 
the rod or pole, when acres are mentioned in their list of premiums; and they request that all 
communications to them may be made agreeably thereto. 
The Society desire that the Papers on different subjects sent to them may be full, clear, explicit, fit 
for publication, and rather in the formof Essays than of Letters. 
*,* To persons inclined to leave a sum of money to this Society by will, ke following form 
is offered for that purpose : 
Item. I give and bequcathto A.B. and C. D. the sum of upon 
condition and the intent that they, or one of them, do pay the same to the collector for the time 
being, of a Society in London, who now call themselves the Society for the Encouragement of 
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce ; which said sum of 
I will and desire may be paid out of my personal estate, and applied towards the carrying on the 
laudable designs of the Society. 
By Order of the Society, 
CHARLES TAYLOR, Secretary. 
