The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsJones, Bence
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
Jones, Bence
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814; Young, Thomas, 1773-1829
_1mo._ These subscribers, who will _never be called upon for any
further contributions_ after the sum subscribed (fifty guineas)
shall have been once paid, will be effectually secured against all
future legal claims and demands upon them on account of any debts
the managers of the Institution may contract, as a charter for
the Institution will be applied for and obtained, for the express
purpose of providing for that security, before any other step shall
be taken for carrying this plan into execution, and before any part
of the money subscribed will be demanded.
_2do._ Proprietors will not be deemed liable to serve, either as
managers or as visitors, against their consent; and none will be
considered as candidates for either of those offices, or will be
entered on the lists as candidates, or be proposed as such, except
it be those who shall have previously signified their willingness
to serve in one of those offices in case of their being elected.
_3tio._ For the still greater security of the proprietors, as well
as to found the Institution on a more solid basis, one-half of the
sums subscribed by the original subscribers and proprietors of the
Institution will be permanently vested in the public funds, or in
the purchase of freehold property, and the annual produce thereof
employed in defraying the expense of keeping up the Institution.
_4to._ Each original subscriber and proprietor of the Institution
to be an hereditary governor of the Institution--to have a
perpetual _transferable_ share in all the property belonging
to it--to have a voice in the election of the managers of
the Institution, as also in the election of the Committee of
Visitors--to have, moreover, two _transferable_ tickets of
perpetual admission into the establishment, and into every part of
it, and two _transferable_ tickets of admission to all the public
philosophical lectures and experiments.
_5to._ Although the shares of proprietors and all the privileges
annexed to them are hereditary, and are also _transferable_ by
sale or by donation, yet those to whom such shares are conveyed by
sale or by donation must, in order to their being rendered capable
of holding them, have obtained the approbation and consent of the
majority of the managers for the time being. Those who shall become
possessed of these shares by inheritance will not stand in need of
the consent of the managers to be qualified to hold them, and to
enjoy the rights and privileges annexed to them.
_6to._ Proprietors’ tickets will admit any persons who shall be the
bearers of them.
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