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
_4to._ It will be the business of this Committee formally to
inspect and examine the Institution, and every part and detail
of it, once every year--namely, on the 25th day of the month of
March--and to give a printed account or report to the proprietors,
and to the subscribers of all denominations, of its state and
condition, and of the degree and manner in which it is found
to answer the important ends for which it was designed. This
Committee will also once every year--namely, on the 25th of the
month of March--examine and audit the accounts of the receipts and
expenditures of the Institution kept by the managers or by their
orders; and the report of the Committee of Visitors on this audit
will always make the first article in their public annual reports.
_5to._ A person actually serving as a visitor will not be eligible
as a manager, nor can his name be put on the list of candidates for
that office till one whole year shall have elapsed after he shall
have ceased to belong to the Committee of Visitors. Those, however,
who serve as visitors will be capable of being _re-elected_ on that
Committee without limitation.
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.
_1mo._ The managers will take care to procure, and to exhibit in
the repository as early as possible, models of all such new and
useful mechanical inventions and improvements as shall, from time
to time, be made in this or in any other country.
_2do._ All presents to the Institution, and all new purchases and
acquisitions of every kind, will be and remain the joint property
of the proprietors of the Institution and of their heirs and
assigns, and all the surplus of the income of the Institution, over
and above what shall be found necessary for maintaining it and
keeping it up, will be employed by the managers in making additions
to the local accommodation of the Institution, or in augmenting the
collection of models, or in making additions to the philosophical
apparatus, accordingly as the managers of the Institution for the
time being shall deem most useful.
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