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 CONSTITUXION 
 
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 ACT OF INCORPORATION 
 
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 C. B. ROBINSON, PRINTER, 5 JORDAN STREET, 
 
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OBJECXS OF XHE ACAOBMY. 
 
 The objects sought to be attained by the Royal 
 Canadian Academy are hereby declared to be : the 
 encouragement of Design as applied to Painting, Sculp- 
 ture, Architecture, Engraving and the Industrial Arts, 
 and the promotion and support of education leading to 
 the production of beautiful and excellent work in manu- 
 factures ; to be attained by 
 
 First. — The institution of a National Gallery at the 
 seat of Government. 
 
 Skcond. — The holding of Exhibitions in the principal 
 cities of the Dominion. 
 
 Third. — The establishment of Schools of Art and 
 Design. 
 
CONSXITTJXION 
 
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 BY-IvAWS 
 
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 THE ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
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 M B M D B R S H I p. 
 
 1. There shall be two orders of members of the Aca- 
 demy, viz. : Academicians and Associates, all of whom 
 shall be artists by profession, and either painters, sculptors, 
 architects, engravers or designers, who shall be British 
 subjects, or, if aliens, permanent residents in the Domin- 
 ion of Canada. 
 
 2. That said Academy shall consist of not more than 
 forty Academicians, of whom not more than ten shall be 
 architects, not more than three engravers and not more 
 than six designers, and of an unlimited number of Associ- 
 ates. At the discretion of the Academy the Academicians 
 may consist of a smaller number. 
 
 3. An Academician shall be an artist by profession who 
 has been duly elected as hereinafter provided, and shall 
 have contributed to the National Gallery of the Dominion, 
 a picture, piece of sculpture, design or engraving approved 
 and accepted by the Council as a satisfactory specimen of 
 his work in his particular branch of art, and shall have 
 signed the obligation to abide by the laws of the Academy, 
 and shall have received a diploma signed by the Governor 
 General. 
 
 4. An Associate shall be an artist by profet "on, duly 
 elected as hereinafter provided, who shall have received 
 his diploma signed by the President and Secretary. 
 
5' If any Academician or Associate shall have wholly 
 neglected, during a period of three years, to communicate, 
 personally or by letter, with the Secretary, so as to afford 
 the means of authentic information as to his existence and 
 place of residence, or shall have failed to exhibit at three 
 consecutive yearly exhibitions of the Academy, he shall be 
 considered as having ceased to be a member of the 
 Academy, and his place shall be declared vacant accord- 
 ingly at the discretion of the Council. 
 
 6. There shall be an honorary retired class of Academ- 
 icians Those Academicians who are desirous of being 
 admitted into such class shall signify their wish by letter 
 addressed to the Secretary The application shall be 
 considered by the Council, and, if approved by it, shall 
 be brought before the General Assembly, and, if confirmed 
 by a majority of votes, the applicant shall be admitted 
 from the date of such election an honorary retired member. 
 He shall retain the title of Academician ; he shall be 
 invited to the private view and varnishing days, and to 
 any social gathering in connection with the Exhibition, 
 but shall not be eligible to serve on Councils or in General 
 Assemblies; such retired Academicians shall not be 
 required to contribute to the funds of the Academy. 
 
 7. There shall be another order of members to be 
 called Honorary Non-resident Academicians, consisting 
 of distinguished artists not resident in the Dominion. 
 They shall be presented with a diploma signed by the 
 President and Secretary. The election of Honorary Non- 
 resident Academicians shall be by ballot, in the manner 
 following. Separate Nomination Books shall be kept in 
 charge of the Secretary, in which Academicians and 
 Associates may inscribe the name or names of non- 
 resident artists of high repute, either painters, sculptors, 
 architects, or engravers, and a separate page shall be 
 reserved for each such nomination, wheron members of 
 the Academy having knowledge of the works of such 
 artists so nominated may add their signatures in token of 
 approval and a recommendation for election. It shall be 
 the duty of the Council to examine such N nination 
 Book, when, should the Council agree in the propriety of 
 recommending any such non-resident artists for Honorary 
 Membership, a resolution to such effect shall be submitted 
 to the General Assembly at the time of the Annual 
 Exhibition, when should the majority of the General 
 Assembly concur by ballot in the recommendation of the 
 Council, the election shall then be decided. 
 
8. There shall be another order of niemhers, called 
 Non-Resident Academicians, consisting of members non- 
 resident in the Dominion. They shall retain the title of 
 Academicians, and their names shall appear on all printed 
 lists of members. The Council shall have the right, from 
 time to time, to transfer the names of those who have 
 permanently left the Dominion from the active class of 
 Academicians. They shall not be required to pay fees, 
 and shall not be eligible to set 'e on the Council or at 
 General Assemblies. 
 
 g. Women shall be eligible for membership in the 
 Academy, but shall not be required to attend business 
 meetings, nor will their names be placed upon the list 
 of rotation for the Council. 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
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 OFFICERS. 
 
 The government of the Academy shall be vested in a Council to be 
 composed of the President, Vice-President and twelve Acade- 
 micians to be appointed as next hereinafter provided. 
 
 1. The officers shall consist of a President, Vice-Pre- 
 sident, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected from 
 among the Academicians by ballot at the Annual General 
 Assembly. In the event of no name receiving a majority 
 of the votes cast on the first ballot for each office, the 
 ballotting for that office shall be continued till a majority 
 exclusive of a vote of the presiding officer is obtained. 
 Ballot papers from absent members, after having been 
 authenticated by the presiding officer and Secretary, shall 
 be handed to the scrutineers, who shall open and count 
 them on the first ballot to the office they specify, but on 
 succeeding ballots such votes from absent members shall 
 not count. A majority of the votes actually cast in each 
 ballot shall secure an election The scrutineers shall be 
 appointed by the presiding officer. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all 
 meetings of Council and at the General Assembly. In his 
 absence the chair shall be taken by the Vice-President 
 and, in the absence of both, by a deputy appointed by the 
 
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 President. The President shall have power to assemble 
 the Council as often as he shall think it necessary, and 
 the General Assembly, at the time of the annual exhibi- 
 tion, but shall have no vote in either unless the suffrages 
 are equal, in which case he shall have a casting vote. He 
 shall have power to nominate one of the Council to act as 
 chairman at Council meetings in the absence of the Presi- 
 dent and Vice-President. The President or his deputy, 
 and no other person, shall have power to summon either 
 the Council or General Assembly. In the absence of the 
 President, the Vice-President shall have the same powers. 
 In the event of the Vice-President being unable to under- 
 take the President's functions, the President may nomi- 
 nate another Academican as deputy. 
 
 3. It shall be the business of the Secretary to keep the 
 minutes of the Council and General Assembly, to write 
 letters, to send summonses, attend during the arrangement 
 of the Exhibition, make out the catalogues, etc., issue 
 ballot forms for election of officers and members to those 
 having the right to vote and being unable to attend at 
 elections. He shall have the direction of the servants of 
 the Academy, keep the accounts, receive moneys due to 
 the Academy, pay the same to the Treasurer and take his 
 ic«..eipt therefor. The Secretary shall have no vote either 
 in the Council or General Assembly All summonses to 
 meetings of the Council shall be sent by registered letter, 
 and, in order to reach all parts of the Dominion in which 
 members may reside, the time elapsing between the date 
 of despatch of such registered letter and holding of such 
 meeting shall be at least fourteen days. 
 
 4. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all 
 moneys collected by the Secretary, to give a receipt for 
 the same, and deposit the same on account of the Academy 
 in a chartered bank to be specified by the Council. 
 
 He shall not be at liberty to dispose of any moneys 
 without an order of Council countersigned by the Presi- 
 dent or his deputy and by the Secretary. In the month 
 of December in each year, or such other month as the 
 Council shall determine, he shall submit a statement, 
 ^ audited as hereafter provided, of the receipts and dis- 
 bursements of the preceding year, with all vouchers for 
 the same, also a statement of the assets and liabilities, 
 and he shall be summoned to all meetings of Council by 
 right of his office, but shall have no vote except he be a 
 member of Council for the time being. 
 
5. There shall be two auditors elected at the Annual 
 <jeneral Assembly. They shall examine the books or 
 statement of the Secretary and Treasurer, compare the 
 same with the vouchers, inspect the bank books, specify 
 the balance of cash remaining in the Treasurer's hands at 
 the time of passing his accounts, and examine any deeds 
 or securities in possession of the Academy and report 
 thereon. 
 
 6. In the event of the demise or resignation of any 
 officer or auditor of the Academy, it shall be in the power 
 of the President to appoint another Academician to fill 
 the office till the next meeting of Council. 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 T H 12 O O U N C I L . ■ 
 
 1. The Council shall consist ot twelve Academicians 
 who, with the President and Vice-President, shall have 
 the entire direction and management of all the business 
 of the Academy which must not be delegated to nor 
 assumed by committees of the general body. 
 
 2. The Council is in no respect whatever subordinate 
 to the General Assembly. 
 
 3. The seats in the Council shall go by succession to 
 all the Academicians. The six senior members of the 
 Council shall go out by rotation everj' year, and these 
 shall not re occupy their seats in the Council till all the 
 rest of the Academicians have served or forfeited the right 
 to serve or neglected to serve. 
 
 4. The newly-elected Academicians, having received 
 their diplomas, shall be plarod in the list of rotation so as 
 to serve in the succeeding Council. 
 
 5. Whenever an Academician shall from any cause 
 decline to be a member of the Council in regular rotation, 
 his name shall be passed over and his claim to a seat for- 
 feited till he shall again appear in regular rotation. 
 
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 6. If any member of Council shall have failed to attend 
 in his place for three successive meetings, such member 
 shall be considered as having vacated his seat in the Coun- 
 cil, and the seat so vacated shall be filled according to the 
 provisions of the following law, unless such absence, for 
 sufficient reasons assigned, shall be sanctioned by the 
 Council. 
 
 7. When the seat of a member of Council shall have 
 become vacant within the first year of the period of his 
 service, by death, resignation or otherwise, the rights and 
 duties attached to it shall immediately devolve on the 
 Treasurer for the residue of the said year. The vacant 
 seat for the second year shall be declared by the President 
 at the Annual General Assembly, and after the usual 
 declaration of names of Academicians who are to serve by 
 rotation in the coming Council, a member shall be 
 appointed by ballot from amongst all the Academicians, 
 except those who serve by rotation the succ\~-ding year, 
 to supply the vacancy so declared. When the seat of a 
 member of Council shall have become vacant within the 
 second year of the period of his services, the residue of 
 the said second year shall be supplied according to the 
 regulation before applied to the residue of the first year. 
 
 8. The lists of rotation shall be printed annually, and 
 the name or names of new members, if any, shall be placed 
 at the head of the list of the junior six members of the 
 Council according to the order of receiving their diplomas. 
 The President and Vice President, being always of the 
 Council, ^heir names are to be omitted in such list of 
 rotation, provided always that it shall be in the power of 
 the President, with the consent of the Council, to direct 
 that, in preparing the lists of rotation, Academicians, not 
 exceeding three in number, residing in the city where the 
 next annual exhibition is to be held, may be substituted for 
 a similar number residing at a distance, whose term of 
 service in the Council shall be postponed until the exhi- 
 bition visits their locality. 
 
 9. The Council shall mec; as often as the business of 
 the Academy requires it. The meeting of six members of 
 Council, including the President, or Vice President, or the 
 deputy of the President, shall be deemed a quorum It is 
 also provided that on the requisition of seven members of 
 the Council, not more than three of whom shall be resi- 
 dents of the same locality, being handed to the President 
 or his deputy, asking for a special meeting, it shall be the 
 
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 duty of such officer to summon such meeting, the object 
 of which shall be distinctly specified in the requisition 
 and summons. 
 
 10. In the absence of the President and Vice-Presi- 
 dent or the deputy of the President, it shall be in the 
 power of six of the Council to nominate a chairman and 
 proceed to business. 
 
 11. The Council shall initiate and adopt all new laws, 
 but they shall have no force till ratified by the consent of 
 the General Assembly and the approbation of the Gover- 
 nor-General. 
 
 12. AH officers and servants of the Academy shall be 
 subservient to the Council. The Council shall have power 
 to reform all abuses, to censure those officers who are 
 deficient in their duty, and with the consent of the general 
 body and the Governor-General's permission, first 
 obtained for that purpose, to suspend or entirely remove 
 from their employment those who shall be found guilty of 
 any great offence. Should any Academician or Associate 
 fail to pay his annual subscription for two years in succes- 
 sion, after he has been duly notified of such neglect, the 
 Council may at its discretion bring his name before the 
 General Assembly and recommend that he be suspended 
 or expelled, but, before such action is taken, the member 
 in arrears shall receive one month's notice in writing. 
 
 13 No correspondence whatever connected with the 
 business of the Academy shall be carried on without the 
 concurrence of the Council, the routine business of depart- 
 ments excepted. 
 
 14. All business relative to the Academy, after it has 
 been settled by the Council in the usual form, shall be laid 
 before the Governor General by the President, who shall 
 make report to the Council of the Governor-General's 
 pleasure thereon. 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 I. There shall be an Annual General Assembly, held 
 at the time of the annual Exhibition, at which the Council 
 for the ensuing year shall be declared, officers, Academi 
 cians. Associates and Auditors elected, new laws passed 
 
by the Council, confirmed or referred back to the Council 
 for reconsideration, and any business transacted for which 
 provision is made in the Constitution At such Annual 
 General Assembly Associates may be present, but only for 
 the purpose of taking part in the election of Academicians 
 as hereinafter provided. 
 
 2. Twelve Academicians, including the President, or 
 Vice-President, or the deputy of the President, at the 
 General Assembly shall be deemed a full meeting. 
 
 3 In the absence of the President and Vice-President 
 and the deputy of the President, it shall be within the 
 power of twelve Academicians at the General Assembly 
 to nominate a chairman for the nieeting and proceed to 
 business. 
 
 4. No motion or proposition concerning the expen- 
 diture of money, or the censuring, suspension or expulsion 
 of a member, shall be entertained at a meeting of General 
 Assembly, of which notice has not been given in writing 
 to the President two months previous to such meeting ; 
 such notice to be signed by the Academician proposing it, 
 and the President shall on receipt of such motion inform 
 the members of the terms thereof. 
 
 5. If any member shall become obnoxious to tne Acad- 
 emy by improper conduct, he may be reprimanded, sus- 
 pended or expelled by a vote of at least two-thirds of the 
 members present at a General Assembly of Academicians, 
 to be decided by ballot and subject to the Governor- 
 General's pleasure. 
 
 SECTION V. 
 
 ELECTION OF ACADEMICIANS AND ASSOCIATES. 
 
 The election of Academicians and Associates shall be 
 held at the Annual General Assembly, the voting to be by 
 ballot. 
 
 Academicians. 
 
 I. Election of Academicians can only be held after 
 the Council shall have duly declared a vacancy, and not 
 more than one vacancy shall be declared in a year in any 
 class, except in cases of death, resignation, retirement or 
 expulsion of Academicians, when the Council, if it see fit, 
 
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 may declare further vacancies for the purposes of rsfilling 
 the seats so vacated, and no one shall be eligible for 
 election to such vacancies but an Associate of the class 
 specified. 
 
 2. Academicians shall be elected by votes of Academi- 
 cians and Associates, but an Associate can only vote at 
 elections of Academicians ot the class to which such 
 Associate belongs. 
 
 3. When vacancies have been declared, the Secretary, 
 two months before the date of election, shall forward to 
 every Academician a list of the Associates eligible for such 
 vacancies, the lists of Associates of the different classes to 
 be separate The Secretary shall forward to each Asso- 
 ciate a list of Associates of the class to which such Asso- 
 ciate belongs, each list to be signed on the back by 
 the Secretary, and to have a margin marked " for signature 
 of voter " placed so that it may be exposed when the list 
 is sealed up 
 
 4 Absent voters may vote by writing " Yes " against 
 one name in such list for the vacancy declared, and shall 
 then seal up the list, sign the exposed part reserved for 
 voter's signature, and return the list to the Secretary. 
 
 5. The presiding officer at ihe General Annual 
 Assembly shall appoint two Academicians to act as scruti- 
 neers. 
 
 6. If there are vacancies in more than one class, there 
 shall be separate ballotings in each class. 
 
 7. Members present shall vote by writing " Yes " 
 against one name for each vacancy. 
 
 8. When the scrutineers have collecied the ballot 
 papers of present voters, the presiding officer and Secre- 
 tary, having satisfied themselves of tne authenticity of the 
 ballot papers of absent members received by the Secretary, 
 shall, after tearing off the signatures, deliver the ballots to 
 the scrutineers, who shall open them, and after adding 
 such votes to the votes of those present, make return to 
 the presiding officer of the number of votes received by 
 each name on the list of Associates eligible for election. 
 
 9. The names receiving the greatest number of votes 
 shall be declared elected to the vacancies, provided always 
 that no election can be secured without a majority of the 
 votes cast, exclusive of a vote of the presiding officer. 
 
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 10. If no one shall receive a sufficient number of votes 
 to secure an election on the first ballot, other ballots may 
 be taken at the discretion of the meeting on the same 
 conditions as the first ballot. 
 
 11. A vacancy once having been declared shall be 
 considered to exist until regularly filled by election. 
 
 12. No Academician elect shall receive his diploma 
 until he has delivered to the Council of the Academy an 
 example of his work in the branch of art which he professes, 
 which work, whe?> accepted by the Council, shall be depos- 
 ited in the National Gallery in Ottawa, and should an Acad- 
 emician elect fail to deliver a specimen of his work of which 
 the Council approves within a period of twelve months 
 after his election, such election shall become void, unless 
 there be such reason given for the omission as shall be 
 deemed sufficient by the Council. 
 
 13. Every engraver, on being elected an Academician, 
 shall deposit in the National Gallery a proof impression 
 of one of his works after its having been accepted by the 
 Council. He shall also be required to deposit in the 
 National Gallery a proof impression of each of his works 
 executed subsequently to his election as an Academician 
 Engraver. 
 
 Associates. 
 
 14. Associates shall be artists of high attainments in 
 their several professions, that is, painters, sculptors, archi- 
 tects, engravers and designers, and shall be elected by the 
 Academicians by ballot at the Annual General Assembly 
 from a list of candidates to be nominated as follows : Each 
 Academician shall have the privilege of nominating candi- 
 dates for the degree of Associate by inscribing the name 
 of proposed candidate in a notice of nomination to be 
 sent to the Secretary and placed in the books used for 
 that purpose, provided that such candidate shall have ex- 
 hibited in at least two exhibitions of the Academy. The 
 Christian name and surname, the department of art or 
 design practised, together with the residence of each can- 
 didate, must be written in full and signed by the proposer. 
 
 15. The list of nominations shall be closed one month 
 before the opening of the annual Exhibition, when the Sec- 
 retary will make out a list of candidates arranged alphabet- 
 ically and in classes. A list shall be printed and sent to 
 each Academician in the notice convening the General 
 
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 Assembly. No name shall be printed in that list unless 
 seconded by an Academician, and the names of both mover 
 and seconder shall be given in the list. Such nomination 
 once entered in the book shall require no repetition, but 
 the Council shall have authority to eliminate from the 
 annual printed list the names of candidates who, in its 
 judgment, appear no longer eligible. 
 
 i6 In election of Associates the presiding officer shall 
 appoint two Academicians to act as Scrutineers. 
 
 17. Absent Academicians may vote by writing " Yes " 
 or "No " against the list of candidates on the list furnished 
 as aforesaid by the Secretary (of a similar character to 
 that used in elections of Academicians), sealing the paper 
 and leaving the signature exposed. 
 
 18. The presiding officer and Secretary, after satisfying 
 themselves of the genuineness of the ballot papers of 
 absent members, shall tear off the signatures and deliver 
 the ballots to the scrutineers, who shall open them. 
 
 ig. A separate ballot shall be taken for each name on 
 the list of candidates, and the scrutineers shall add to 
 the votes of Academicians present the votes for or against 
 each name as recorded on the ballot papers of absent 
 Academicians. 
 
 20 Any candidate receiving two-thirds of the votes 
 cast, exclusive ol the vote of the presiding officer, shall be 
 declared elected. The first ballot in each case to be final. 
 
 21. No election of an Associate shall be valid till he 
 has received his diploma signed by the President and 
 Secretary. 
 
 22. An Associate elect who shall not take up his di- 
 ploma within one year from his election will be considered 
 as declining to become a member of the Academy, unless 
 there shall be such reasons given for the omission as shall 
 be deemed sufficient by the Council. 
 
 SECTION VI. 
 
 FUNDS. 
 
 I. No part of the funds of the Academy shall be applied 
 to any purpose but those of the Institution. 
 
2. There shall be an annual subscription paid by each 
 Academician ol ten dollars, and by each Associate of five 
 dollars, the first payment to be made before the issue of 
 diploma, and subsequent payments upon the first day of 
 January in each and every year. Members m arrears 
 shall not be allowed to vote at any meeting or elections. 
 
 3. All moneys which have been or may hereafter be 
 invested in real estate or in Government securities shall 
 be vested in the name o*" four trustees, who will be the 
 President, Vice-President Secretary or Treasurer for the 
 time being, and one other member of the Academy to be 
 ''hosen by the Council ; and the Council shall direct the 
 I'reasurer, or any other Trustee, to receive the sums, 
 rent, interest or otherwise accruing therefrom as they 
 become due. 
 
 4. Whenever any one of the said Trustees dies or 
 desires to be discharged from, or refuses or becomes, in 
 the opinion of the Council, unfit or incapable to act in 
 reference to the trusts reposed in him, the Council shall 
 immediately appoint some other member in his place ; 
 and upon such appointment all the trust property shall, 
 with all convenient speed, be assigned to the new Trustee, 
 jointly with the surviving or continuing Trustees, and he 
 shall have the same power and liabilities as if originally 
 nominated ; such new Trustees shall, upon such assign- 
 ment being made, execute a declaration of trust in refer- 
 ence to the trust property in favor of the Royal Canadian 
 Academy. 
 
 5. A statement of accounts shall be brought annually 
 before the General Assembly. 
 
 SECTION VII. 
 
 SALARIES. 
 
 1. The Secretary's salary shall be determined by the 
 Council. 
 
 2. Members of Council shall, if the funds of the 
 Academy permit of it, receive three cents travelling allow- 
 ance per mile, going to and returning, in payment of 
 expenses of travelling to attend Council meetings, if the 
 distance to be travelled exceeds five miles. 
 
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 3. Each member of committee for arranging the works 
 of Art intended for exhibition shall be paid five dollars for 
 each day of his attendance. The number of days during 
 which the services of such committee is required to be 
 determined by the President, or in his absence, the Vice- 
 President, or the deputy of the President, or by his 
 deputy, and not to exceed four, unless directly sanctioned 
 by the President or his deputy. 
 
 4. The remuneration of employees in connection with 
 the Exhibition or otherwise shall be determined by the 
 Council. 
 
 SECTION VIII. 
 
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 EXHIBITIONS. 
 
 1. There shall be an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, 
 Sculpture, Engravings and Designs, in which ail artists 
 of distinguished merit shall be permitted lo exhibit their 
 works. It shall continue open to the public for a term 
 which shall be at the discretion of the Council, and be 
 under the regulations expressed in the by-laws of the 
 Academy. 
 
 2. No copy, with the exception of Paintings in Enamel, 
 and Engravings which have not been elsewhere publicly 
 exhibited, shall be admitted into the Exhibition. 
 
 3 No work of Art which has been publicly exhibited 
 in the city in which the Exhibition for the year is held 
 shall be admitted. 
 
 4. Not more than ten pictures shall be received from 
 each Academician or Associate, to be hung for sale in the 
 Exhibition ; and not more than four pictures shall be 
 exhibited for any artist who is not a member of the Royal 
 Canadian Academy. All works marked for sale in the 
 catalogue must be the work of the Exhibitor and the 
 property of the Exhibitor. 
 
 5. No work intended for exhibition shall be received 
 after the time limited for the reception has expired. 
 
 6. Descriptions of works sent for the Exhibition to be as 
 short as possible, and all unnecessary quotations to be 
 condensed at the discretion of the Council. 
 
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 7- Within three days after the lime limited for receiving 
 works of Art for exhibition has expired, the Committee of 
 Arrangement, on being summoned, shall attend to receive 
 or reject the same, which they have full power and 
 authority to do. 
 
 8. The arrangement and disposition of the works of 
 Art accepted for exhibition shall be entirely left to the 
 Council, or to a committee appointed by them. 
 
 g. A Committee consisting of four Academicians shall 
 be chosen out of members of Council for the arrange- 
 ments of the Exhibition The President or his deputy 
 shall be an additional member of the Committee of 
 arangement. 
 
 10. A list of members of the Royal Canadian Academy 
 shall be printed and inserted in the catalogue after the 
 title page. 
 
 11. Titles of exhibitors, other than those of the Royal 
 Canadian Academy, shall be given only in the index of 
 artists' names at the end of the catalogue ; and in case of 
 a member exhibiting in a class to which he does not belong 
 the letters designating his rank in the Academy shall be 
 omitted when his name appears in connection with such 
 exhibit. 
 
 12. No application for changing the situation of any 
 work of Art, after the Committee has finished the arrange- 
 ment and the members are admitted to view the Ex- 
 hibition, can be attended to or permitted. 
 
 13. One day or more, at the discretion of the Council, 
 shall be allowed to all exhibitors for the purpose of var- 
 nishing or painting on their pictures in the places which 
 have been allotted to them previous to the day appointed 
 for the private view ; but no member of the Academy or 
 of the Council shall, on any pretence whatever, be per 
 mitted tc paint upon or varnish his picture from the period 
 appointed for receiving the works of exhibitors to the day 
 ot opening the Exhibition to the public, except upon the 
 days appointed as above by the Council for that purpose 
 — accidents to works of art arising within the walls of the 
 Royal Academy excepted. 
 
 14 No persons can be admitted into the rooms before 
 the Exhibition opens, the Committee of Arrangements and 
 necessary servants excepted. 
 
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 15. No member of the Committee of Arrangements 
 shall communicate with any member of the Academy or 
 other artists on the situation of their works during the 
 time of arrangement for exhibition without the consent of 
 a majority of the Council. All servants of the Academy, 
 and other persons employed in the arrangement of the 
 Exhibition, are strictly prohibited from giving information 
 to any artist or person whatever respecting the situation 
 in which their work may be placed, and warning of such 
 prohibition shall be given by the President previous to 
 proceeding with the examination of works offered tor 
 exhibition. 
 
 16. Works sent for exhibition, being a trust reposed 
 in the Royal Canadian Academy, no permission to copy 
 them during the term of exhibition shall on any account 
 be granted. 
 
 17. Academicians, Associates and Exhibitors shall 
 have full admittance to the Exhibition after it has been 
 opened. 
 
 18 The Exhibitions of the Royal Canadian Academy 
 shall be held every year in rotation in such cities of the 
 Dominion as may be determined by the Council. 
 
 SECTION IX. 
 
 ANNUAL ASSEMB LV. 
 
 There shall be an Annual Evenmg Assembly of Acad- 
 emicians and Associates in the rooms of the Exhibition 
 on some evening to be determined by the Committee of 
 Arrangements. 
 
 The Committee of Arrangements, with the sanction of 
 the Council, may also issue invitations to those whom, in 
 its judgment, it may be in the interests of the Academy to 
 ask to be present. 
 
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 AN ACT TO incorporate: 
 
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 ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS 
 
 Whereas a society, consisting of professional artists, 
 has been founded in the Dominion of Canada by His 
 Excellency the Right Honorable the Marquis of Lornei 
 Governor-General of Canada, and by Her Royal Highness 
 the Princess Louise, and, with the sanction of Her Majesty 
 Queen Victoria, has been entitled the Royal Canadian 
 Academy of Arts ; and, whereas, the said Society hath, 
 by petition, prayed for an Act to incorporate the said 
 Society ; and, whereas, it is expedient to grant the prayer 
 of the said petition : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of 
 Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 
 
 1. The present members of the said Society, who have 
 complied with all conditions of membership under the 
 present constitution thereof, and such other artists as may 
 hereafter become Academicians and Associates pursuant 
 to the provisions hereinafter set forth, shall be and are 
 hereby incorporated and constituted a body politic and 
 corporate by the name of the " Royal Canadian Academy 
 of Arts," hereinafter called the Academy ; the objects of 
 the said corporation shall be the encouragement of Design, 
 as applied to Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Engraving 
 and the Industrial Aris, and the promotion and support 
 of Education, leading to the production of beautiful and 
 excellent work in manufactures ; such objects to be 
 attained by : 
 
 ist. — The institution of a National Gallery at the seat 
 of Government ; 
 
 2nd. — The holding of exhibitions in the principal cities 
 of the Dominion ; 
 
 3rd. — The establishment of Schools of Art and Design. 
 
 2. There shall be two orders of members of the 
 Academy, viz.: Academicians and Associates, all of 
 whom shall be artists by profession, and either painters, 
 
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 sculptors, architects, engravers or designers, who shall be 
 British subjects, or, if aliens, permanent residents in the 
 Dominion. 
 
 3. The said Academy shall consist of not more than 
 forty Academicians, of whom not more than ten shall be 
 architects, not more than three engravers, and not more 
 than six designers, and of an unlimited number of 
 Associates. 
 
 4. An " Academician " shall be an artist by profession, 
 and shall have contributed to the National Gallery of the 
 Dominion a picture, piece of sculpture, design or engraving, 
 approved and accepted by the Council as a satisfactory 
 specimen of his work in his particular branch of art, and 
 shall have signed the obligation in form and manner pre- 
 scribed by the Governor-General, or as may hereafter be 
 prescribed by the laws of the Academy, and shall have 
 received a diploma signed by the Governor-General. 
 
 5. An " Associate " shall be an artist by profession, 
 whose election shall be approved by the Governor-General, 
 and who shall have received a diploma signed by the 
 President of the Academy. 
 
 6 There shall be annually one general meeting of the 
 Academy at which the Associates may be present, but only 
 for the purpose of taking part in the election of Acad- 
 emicians as hereafter provided. At such meeting the 
 President shall declare the Council ; and the Academy 
 shall elect officers and new members and confirm new 
 laws ; adjudge premiums to be given to students, donations 
 to art schools and to any student who is sent abroad ; 
 hear complaints and redress grievances ; and transact 
 any other business relative to the Acaden'v of which such 
 notice shall have been given as may be required by the 
 laws of the Academy ; such meeting to be held at such 
 time and place during the holding of an annual exhibition 
 as the President may appoint. 
 
 7. At s::ch general annual meeting the Academicians 
 and Associates shall jointly elect by ballot from amongst 
 the Associates such members for Academicians as may 
 have been previously ordered by the Council to be elected ; 
 and the Academicians shall also at said meeting ba/ot for 
 any artist eligible as an associate member of the Acadein}' 
 whose name has been proposed fo ^^iection as such Asso- 
 ciate, and if such person shall obtain a majority of votes 
 
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 of Academicians present at the meeting, he shall be 
 declared elected ; provided that Associate Architects shall 
 vote only for the election of architects, and all other Asso- 
 ciates shall vote in all elections except those of architects. 
 
 8. The government of the Academy shall be vested in 
 a Council to be composed of the President, Vice-President 
 and twelve Academicians to be appointed as next herein- 
 after provided. 
 
 9. The present Council shall continue in office until 
 the next general annual meeting, when the six senior 
 members of the Council shall retire and their places be 
 filled by other Academicians, who shall serve in rotation 
 in the manner directed by any rule in that behalf, so that 
 the seats in the Council may go by succession to all the 
 Academicians. The six senior members of the Council 
 shall subsequently retire by rotation yearly, and these 
 shall not reoccupy their seats in the Council till all the 
 rest of the Academicians have served. 
 
 10. The President shall have power to assemble the 
 Council as often as he shall think it necessary. 
 
 11. The President shall have power to nominate one 
 of the Council to act as his deputy in the absence of the 
 President and Vice-President. 
 
 i'^. The President or his deputy, and no other person, 
 shall have power to summon either the Council or any 
 general meeting. In the absence of the President, the 
 Vice-President authorized by him shall have the same 
 powers. In the event of the Vice-President being unable 
 to undertake the President's functions, the Pre.sident may 
 nominate another deputy. 
 
 13. The constitution, rules and bylaws of the Royal 
 Canadian Academy of Arts, as existing at the time of the 
 passing of this Act, shall be and continue as the con- 
 stitution, rules and by-laws of the said Academy so far as 
 the same are consistent with this Act and with the laws 
 of Canada and the Provinces thereof, until the same 2^ re 
 altered or repealed in the manner prescribed by this Act. 
 
 14. No such rule or by-law shall be altered or repealed, 
 or new rule or by-law made, except at a meeting of the 
 Council to be called for that purpose, of which no' ' 3 shall 
 be mailed to each member of the Council at least fourteen 
 days before such meeting takes place. 
 
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 15. The Council for the time being shall have power, 
 at any meeting called for the purpose, to amend, repeal or 
 add to the then existing rules and by-laws in such manner 
 as it may be deemed expedient for the interests of the 
 Academy in respect to the following matters : 
 
 I St.— The election of new members ; 
 
 2nd. — The vacating of membership owing to the 
 absence or non-attendance of members. 
 
 3rd. — The regulation and collection of fees payable by 
 members ; 
 
 4th. — The suspension or expulsion of obnoxious mem- 
 bers ; hut no expulsion to take place except upon a vote 
 of at least two-thirds of the members present at the 
 general annual meeting ; 
 
 5th. — The granting of premiums or donations to dis- 
 tressed artists who have been exhibitors at the Exhibition 
 of the Academy, or to their widows or children ; 
 
 6th. — The holding of meetings and the conduct of 
 business thereat ; 
 
 7th. — The management of the affairs of the Academy 
 where not otherwise provided for by this Act, and all 
 other matters necessary or expedient to carry out its 
 objects ; provided that such new rule or by-law be not 
 inconsistent with this Act, or with the laws of the Dominion 
 or of any Province thereof. 
 
 16. Such new rule or by-law, or an"y amendment or 
 repeal of any rule or by-law, shall only have force until 
 the next general meeting of the Academy, when it shall 
 be either confirmed or annulled by the Academicians, and 
 shall in no case come into force until approved by the 
 Governor-General. All changes in existing rules or by- 
 laws must originate with the Council : all business relative 
 to the Academy, after it has been settled by the Council, 
 shall be laid before the Governor General by the Presi- 
 dent ; and the President or his deputy shall make report 
 to the Council of the Governor- General's pleasure thereon. 
 
 17. The Academy may sue or be sued in its corporate 
 name. 
 
 18. It shall be lawful for the said Academy to acquire 
 and hold any such real or personal property as it may 
 require for actual use or occupation, or to carry out the 
 objects of its incorporation. 
 
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 ig. It shall be lawful for the said Academy to sell, 
 lease or otherwise dispose of the property so acquired 
 under the constitution, rules and regulations and bylaws 
 of the said corporation, subject to the law of the Province 
 in which such property is situated. 
 
 20. The present President and Vice-President having 
 been appointed in the first instance by the Governor- 
 General in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 eighty, for a term of five years terminating at the time of 
 the general meeting of the Academy in the year one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and eighty-five, shall hold office lor 
 that time, and their successors shall subsequently be 
 elected annually at the annual meeting, as shall be also 
 the Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor or Auditors. 
 
 21. If the Presidency or Vice- Presidency is vacated 
 before five years shall have elapsed from the date of the 
 appointment of the first President or Vice-President, the 
 Governor General shall appoint to either the Presidency 
 or the Vice-Presidency. 
 
 22. Except as hereinbefore provided, the Council shall 
 have power to fill a vacancy in any office which may 
 occur during the year. 
 
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