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MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
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MAY i, 1807. 
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** Influence and Celebrity, the moft extenfively circulated Mifcellany will repay with the greateh Effect ths 
& Curiofity of thofe who read either for Amufement or Infruction.” JOHNSON, 
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
AN account of the LONDON INSTITU- 
TION, 
VNU chief purpofes of the London 
T Tnftitution are, the fpeedy and ge- 
neral diffufion of {cience, literature, and 
the arts, by means of lectures and ex- 
eriments, and teaching the application 
of f{cientific difcoveries to the improve- 
ment of arts and manufactures in this 
country; the acquifition of a valuable 
and extenfive library, confifting of books 
in all languages both ancient and mo- 
dern, and giving an ealy accefs to the ufe 
of it; and the eftablifhment: of reading 
rooms, where the foreign and domettic 
journals, newfpapers, and other periodi- 
cal works, and the beft pamphlets and 
new publications, may be provided for 
the ufe of the proprietors and fubfcribers, 
* Jn the execution of this plan, the prin- 
cipal gentlemen and merchants of thé 
metropolis, to the number of one thou- 
fand, fubfcribed the fum of feventy-five 
fuineas each, towards forming the necef- 
fary funds; and appointed a committee 
to prepare a fet of By-laws for the go- 
vernment of the Inftitution, 
\ As thefe By-laws explain the nature of 
this eftablifhment in detail, it will be ne- 
ceflary to give them in a claflified form, 
in order that they may be more eafily 
underftood by thofe perfons who may 
have it in contemplation to_eftablith 
fimilar inftitutions in the large and popu- 
lous cities; and manufacturing towns of 
the United Kingdom. 
It may be neceflary to premife that the 
London Inftitution is a body, politic and 
corporate, being fo created by royal 
charter, granted to the managers and 
proprietors in January, 1807. 
Of the direétion and udminifiration of the 
Injiitution. 
All the affairs of the Inftitution are 
directed and adminiftered by a committee 
of managers, confifting of the prefident, 
four vice-prefidents, twenty managers, 
and the~fecretary, chofen by and from 
among the proprietors, One fourth of 
_ the prefidents and managers annually 
ry a 
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vacate their office, but are eligible to be 
re-elected to other offices of the inftitution, 
Of the Proprietors. 
_ The number of proprietors is limited to 
one thoufand, and the whole property of 
the Inftitution is vetted folely im that 
body, who have complete authority to 
control and difpofe of the fame, and no 
fale or mortgage of any real property be- 
longing to the Inftitution, or of any ftock 
of money permanently invefted, can be 
made, but with the approbation and con- 
_currence of a general meeting of pro- 
prietors convened for that exprefs pur- 
Dole. acd : 
Every candidate for election as a pro= 
prietor muft be propofed by a manager 
at one of their meetings, and his name is 
then hung up in the managers’ room, 
and at the next meeting he is balloted 
for. No perfon can be elected unlefs 
two-thirds, at leaft, of the managers are 
in favour of his admiffion. 
There 1s a gencral meeting of proprie- 
tors annually, on the laft Thurfday in 
April, for the purpofe of ele¢ting the 
othcers of the Inftitution, and receiving 
the report of the managers, containing a 
general ftatement of the matters with 
which. it may be neceffary the proprietors 
fhould be acquainted, in order that they 
may form an opinion of the actual itate of 
the Inftitution, in refpect to its pecuniary 
concerns and the accomphihment of its 
objects. ord ) 
_ The minutes of the-tranfactions at 
every general meeting of the proprietors 
are entered in a book by the fecretary, 
and read over at the next meeting for 
approbation as to their correct entry, 
and after being approved are figned by 
the prefident, or im his abfence by the 
chairman, 
Previoufly to the general meeting in 
April, printed alphabetical lifts of the 
proprietors, and the names of the pro- 
feffors, leétures, &c. are to be provided 
at the houfe of the Inftitution. 
The votes of the proprietors for the 
election of the offices of the Inftitution 
Rr are 
