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
_5to._ The elections of managers to be made annually on the 25th
day of the month of March,[13] and fourteen days previous to
each election the managers for the time being will send to each
proprietor individually a printed list containing the names of
all such of the proprietors as shall have offered or consented
to be candidates for the places among the managers that are to
be filled up. On this printed list, which each proprietor will
receive, he will indicate the persons to whom he gives his suffrage
by making a mark with a pen and ink in the form of a small cross
just before the names of those persons; and, this being done,
he will seal up the list without signing it and send it to the
Institution, directed ‘To the United Committee of the Managers and
of the Visitors.’ In order that these lists may be recognised on
their being returned to the Institution, they will all be marked
with the stamp of the Institution previous to their being issued
or sent to the proprietors. And, for still further security, each
proprietor will be requested to send in his or her sealed list
of names under an additional cover, signed with his or her own
name, which additional cover will be taken off, and all the sealed
lists mixed together in an urn, previous to any of them being
opened--an arrangement that will effectually prevent the vote of
any individual subscriber being known.
_6to._ The managers are to serve in that office without any pay or
emolument or pecuniary advantage whatever; and by their acceptance
of their office they shall be deemed solemnly to pledge themselves
to the proprietors of the Institution and to the public for the
faithful discharge of their duty as managers, and also for their
strict adherence to the fundamental principles of the government of
the Institution as established at its formation.
_7mo._ The managers are to take care that the property of the
Institution, as far as it shall be practicable, be insured against
accidents by fire.
_8vo._ The managers will cause exact and detailed accounts to be
kept of all the property belonging to the Institution, as also of
all receipts and expenditures. They will also keep regular minutes
of all their proceedings, and will take care to preserve the most
exact order and the strictest economy in the management of all the
affairs and concerns of the Institution.
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