The foregoing List is not to be considered as comprising every subject belonging to each class, but principally those which it is intended shall be first treated of.

The practical means for ensuring steady adherence to the object of the Society, and for most efficaciously securing a due execution of the plan proposed, with all such improvements of detail as experience may from time to time dictate, will be found in the following Rules for the establishment and continuance of the Society, under the conduct of an efficient Committee.

RULES.

I. The Society to consist of all such individuals as may be induced to contribute the sum of Ten Pounds or upwards, in one payment, or One Pound or upwards, annually.

II. Every Annual Subscription to be considered as made on the preceding 1st of January, and to fall due again on the following 1st of January, in each year.

III. Every Subscriber on having paid his Subscription for the current year, to be entitled to a copy of each Tract as soon as published, and to have the privilege of purchasing twelve, or any greater number, at a considerable reduction from the publication price, for gratuitous, distribution.

IV. The business of the Society to be transacted by a Committee, not less than thirty in number, consisting, in the first instance, of the following Subscribers :

HON. J. ABERCROMBIE, M.P.
WM. ALLEN, Esq., F.R.S.

RT. HON. LORD ALTHORP, M.P.
RT. HON. LORD AUCKLAND.
CAPT. FRANCIS BEAUFORT, R.N.,
F.R.S.

C. BELL, Esq., F.R.S.

H. BROUGHAM, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.
T. F. BUXTON, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.
J. CARTER, Esq., M.P.

R. OTWAY CAVE, Esq., M.P.

WM. CRAWFORD, Esq.

CAPT. BASIL HALL, R.N., F.R.S.
M. D. HILL, Esq.

ROWLAND HILL, Esq.
BELLENDEN KER, Esq.
JAMES LOCH, Esq.

DR. LUSHINGTON, D.C.L. M.P.
SIR J. MACKINTOSH, M.P., F.R.S.
REV. EDW. MALTBY, D.D., F.R.S.
J. MARSHALL, Esq., M.P.
JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P.
JAMES MILL, Esq.

JAMES MILLAR, Esq.

T.DENMAN, Esq., Common Sergeant RT. HON. LORD NUGENT, M.P.

of the City of London.

ROBERT FORSTER, Esq.

I. L. GOLDSMID, Esq.

SIR H. PARNELL, Bart., M.P.

GEORGE PHILIPS, Esq., M.P.
T. SPRING RICE, Esq., M.P., F.A.S.

DR. OLINTHUS GREGORY, Royal RT. HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL,

Academy, Woolwich.

H. HALLAM, Esq., F.R.S.

M.P.

J. SMITH, Esq., M.P.

W.STURCH, Esq.

RT. HON. LORD SUFFIELD.

DAN. SYKES, Esq., M.P.

DR. A. T. THOMSON, F.L.S.
WILLIAM EYTON TOOKE, Esq.

H. WARBURTON, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.

Treasurer-WILLIAM TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. Soc. Arts.

LEO. HORNER, Esq., F.R.S. L. & E., GEO. W. WOOD, Esq., Manchester.

Edinburgh.

J. MARSHALL, Jun., Esq., Leeds.
PROF. NAPIER, F.R.S.E., Edinburgh.
FRAS. JEFFREY, Esq., Edinburgh.
D. ELLIS, Esq., F.R.S., Edinburgh.
R. GREVILLE, LL.D., Edinburgh.
REV. A. THOMSON, D.D., Edinburgh.
T. EYRE LEE, Esq., Birmingham.
JAMES LOSH, Esq., Newcastle.
JOS. PARKES, Esq., Birmingham.
JOS. WEDGWOOD, Esq., Etruria.
J. ASHTON YATES, Esq., Liverpool.
J. H. ABRAHAM, Esq., Sheffield.

AB. CLARKE, Esq., Newport.
T. COOKE, Jun., Esq., Newport.
R.G.KIRKPATRICK, Esq.Newport.
DR. TRAILL, Liverpool.

E. CARTER, Esq., Portsmouth.
D. HOWARD, Esq., Portsmouth.
REV. DR, INMAN, Naval College,
Portsmouth.

G. GRANT, Esq., Portsmouth.
REV. W.SHEPHERD, Liverpool.
REV. W. TURNER, Newcastle.
J. TYRRELL, Esq., Exeter.
JOS. REYNOLDS, Esq., Bristol.

Secretary-Mr. THOMAS COATES.
Collector-Mr. KENNELL.

V. The Committee to have the entire conduct of the affairs of the Society, and disposal of its Funds towards the attainment of the proposed object.

VI. The Committee to elect from time to time, from their own body, a Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Treasurer.

VII. The Committee also to engage convenient Apartments, and a Secretary or Clerk, and Collector, taking security from the latter for the faithful discharge of his duty, with power to allow Salaries to them; and to engage, suspend, or discharge such officers as the Committee may think fit.

VIII. The Committee to add to their number and supply vacancies occurring in their own body, by ballot, from among the Subscribers; the person proposed being nominated and seconded at one Meeting in ordinary, and not to be ballotted for until the next following ordinary Meeting of the Committee-notice being given in the summons for such Meeting of the name of the person proposed, and by whom nominated and seconded.

IX. No person deriving any emolument directly or indirectly from the funds of the Society, shall be eligible to be a Member of the Committee.

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X. The Committee shall meet the first Monday in every Month, without summons, or oftener, if necessary, upon special summons, under the direction of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or Trea

surer.

XI. The ordinary business of the Committee to be transacted as soon as five Members shall assemble, and in the absence of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or Treasurer, the person who shall have first come, to preside; and such Chairman shall thereupon sign the Minutes of the preceding Meeting.

XIÍ. On any election of Officers, ten Members at the least to be present.

XIII. The Committee to have liberty to appoint Sub-Committees from their own Members, for particular objects, with power for any three to act.

XIV. All questions to be decided by a majority of the Members actually present, the Chairman having only a casting vote in case of equality of numbers.

XV. In the event of any Member of the Committee not having attended one Meeting during the year, he shall be considered as having tendered his resignation.

XVI. For the conduct of their business, the Committee may, from time to time, make such regulations of detail as they shall deem expedient, and may alter or repeal such regulations as often as circumstances shall require, provided they be not inconsistent with these fundamental Rules.

XVII. That the Committee shall promote the establishment of Local and Provincial Committees, throughout the United Kingdom, for extending the object of the Society, and facilitating the attainment of it by every means of co-operation which may be suggested for that purpose; and that Members of such Local Committees shall have the privilege, when in town, of attending, but not voting, at Meetings of the London Committee.

XVIII. That every person who shall have gratuitously contributed a Tract, which shall have been published under the sanction of the Committee, shall immediately be considered an Honorary Member of the Society, and eligible on the Committee.

XIX. The Treasurer to receive all monies on account of the Society; and from time to time to invest the amount in Exchequer

Bills, except a competent sum for current expenses. The Treasurer to pay all demands upon the Society as often as he shall be authorised to do so by a Minute of the Committee: he shall also make up his Accounts half-yearly, and lay the same before Auditors to be nominated by the Committee; and such Accounts, when passed and verified by the Auditors, shall be signed, and the balance in hand declared by a Minute to be entered on the proceedings of the Committee. The Treasurer, however, to be at liberty to disburse sums for current expenses not exceeding 201. at one time; subject, however, to be checked by the Auditors on passing each half-yearly Account.

XX. The Secretary or Clerk shall keep the Minute-books of the Committee, enter the Reports and Proceedings of all SubCommittees, send written or printed notices to Members of the Committee to meet at the times and places fixed; and act and correspond as such Committees may direct, in furtherance of the views of the Society; and, in general, perform all the other duties which are understood to belong to the office of Secretary.

XXI. The Collector to act as Messenger, as there may be occasion; and to render such assistance in the office, from time to time, as may be required of him by the Committee, Treasurer, or Secretary; and to be paid such salary or poundage as may be agreed on, he giving security duly to account for all monies which may come to his hands.

XXII. No alteration to be introduced into these Rules, or any new one proposed, unless the same shall have been moved and seconded, in writing, at an ordinary Meeting, and entered on the Minutes for the purpose of being considered at the next Meeting, which shall consist of not less than ten Members; the subject being specially noticed in the summons, and not to be carried into effect until confirmed at a following Meeting.

All Communications to the Society; offers of literary assistance, with the Terms, &c., to be addressed to MR. COATES, the Secretary, No. 7, Furnival's Inn, Holborn; and, if from the Country, under cover to any of the Committee who may be in Parliament.

Orders for the Publications to be addressed to Messrs. BALDWIN & Co.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, STAMFORD STREET.