V. All Committees shall be summoned, and the matters referred to them shall be specified in the respective summons; and when any matter is referred to any of the Committees of this Society, the mover thereof shall be summoned to attend such Committee when the same is taken into consideration. VI. All Committees shall have power to adjourn themselves as they think fit; and, notwithstanding particular gentlemen are named for each Committee, every Member is of every Committee. VII. If a Member shall signify to the Secretary his intention to attend any Committee, he shall be summoned to it; and the Secretary shall be directed to summon such other Members and other persons as the Chairman apprehends to be most conversant in the business to come before them; which business also shall be declared in the summons: and three Members shall constitute a Committee. VIII. In order that every Member may be the better informed of the times of the Meetings of the several Committees; in general cases they are fixed in the following manner: Committees of Correspondence and Agricul- Colonies and Trade, and Manufactures, on Mechanics, on Thursday. Polite Arts, on Friday. Chemistry, on Saturday. Accounts, in the first week in every month. IX. It is the duty of a Chairman to observe, that no question be put to the Committee unless three Members are present; and before an adjournment of such Committee, or Report concluded, that the Minutes be read, and signed by the Chairman, who shall certify that three Members at least were present. And the Chairman is requested to attend the Reports of the Committee in which he presided, when such Reports are made to the Society. X. The Chairman shall take care that regular Meetings of the Committee be appointed, and that their Reports be made, fairly written, and without blanks, so soon as any one or more of the subjects referred for their consideration have been disposed of; or when they may deem it requisite to gain further directions from the Society; but in case upon appointment of a Committee, a sufficient number do not attend, the Chairman is required to appoint another day, and shall direct the Secretary to summon the Committee on a future day, at a distance of not less than three days inclusive. XI. There shall be constantly hung up in the Society's Room and Committee-Room, a List of all Committees, specifying the business they are to consider, and the days they are appointed to meet. XII. No pecuniary or other Reward shall be given to any candidate for a Premium or Bounty, for his trouble or attendance on any Committee, to whom such matter shall be referred by the Society for their consideration, unless by order of the Society. XIII. All references to the several Committees shall be entered in the respective Committee-Books, in one List, at the beginning of such Books, in order that the subjects of them may be regularly taken up. XIV. Lists of Reports that are ready to be made, or standing for confirmation, with their dates, shall always be hung up in the Great Room. XV. Every Committee shall direct the Secretary to write to one or more of the persons subscribing any Certificate in claim of a Premium in Great Britain, or to such other persón as the Committee may think proper, for further information of the truth of such Certificate, and shall wait for an answer as to the reality of their having signed the same, before the adjudication of such Premium. Provincial Committees. That Members of this Society residing in Manufacturing or Commercial towns, or in the country at a distance from London, be recommended to form themselves into Committees in their respective neighbourhoods. Each Committee to elect an honorary Secretary from amongst themselves, to correspond with the Secretary of the Society; and any communication which shall be received from the provincial committees will be attended to by the Society, and such as, in the opinion of the Society, shall contain information which may be useful to the public, will be printed in the Society's Transactions. The Secretary of each of the provincial Committees to send to the Society an annual List of the names of the Members of such Committee. The provincial Committees to furnish the Society with information respecting the claims for Premiums sent from their respective neighbourhoods. The Society will provide the provincial Committees with sufficient numbers of its Rules and Orders and Lists of Premiums for distribution, but reserves to itself the privilege of presenting sets of its Transactions to provincial Committees, and of affording them such other privileges as may from time to time appear advisable to the Society. The Society recommend to the attention of the provincial Committees, the several objects of the Society, as detailed in its List of Premiums, and to propose to the Society any other Premiums by which they think its beneficial influence may be extended, and to communicate any improvements which have been practised in their respective neighbourhoods. Their attention also is particularly invited to the natural and mineral productions of the country, and it is desirable they should transmit to the Society specimens of such as they think may be advantageously employed in any of the Arts or Manufactures of the country, and should they request to have information respecting them, such request will be attended to by the Society, and the specimens analyzed if necessary. The provincial Committees will likewise be expected to favour the Society with Models or Descriptions of any ingenious Machines, or other new and useful Inventions which may come to their knowledge, connected with the Manufac tures of the country; particularly such as shall be invented by any person, who from inadequacy of means, may be unable to bring it before the public. SECT. XII. Of Rewards. I. The chief object of the attention and encouragement of the Society, in the application of their Rewards, are ingenuity in the several branches of the Polite and Liberal Arts; useful Inventions, Discoveries or Improvements in Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanics, and Che Ꭰ |