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Un des symbples suivants apparaltra sur la dernlAre Image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbolo —^ siynifie "A SUIVRE". le symoole V signifie "FIN". Li"S cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre flim6s A des taux de reduction diff Arents. Lorsque le document dst trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, it est fitmA A partir da Tangle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. I.es diegr?^mmes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 RULES AND ORDERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS AND SCIENCES :N CANADA. ESTABLISHED AT QUEBEC ON THE 25tu APRIL 1827. QUEBEC : PRINTED BY T. CAttY A CO/ 1827. Cor//7>. ry\ OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. PRESIDENT, Joseph Bouchette, Esq. Surveyor General. VICE PRESIDENT, 1 Ls. PLAMONDON, I p,„„, I 3. J. R. VALLIERES De St. REAL, M. P. 2 Wm. SHEPPARD, 1 ^*'*"^- 1 4. GENERAL SECRETARY, Doctor X. Tessier. ASSISTANT SECRETARY, R, S. M. Bouchette, Esq. TREASURER, Michel Clouet, Esq. M. P. RULES AND ORDERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS & SCIENCES IN CANADA. CHAP. I. 1. The Officers of the Society will be, a President, four Vice-Presidents, a General Secretary, an Assistant Secretary and a Treasurer, who will be elected by ballot on the first Thursday in June of each year. 2. The Election will take place in the manner fol- lowing : — The President having taken his seat shall re- ceive the ballots in a box placed before him, and col- lect the suffrages in the presence of the members. 3. When the suffrages are equal, the Candidates shall decide by lot which of them shall be maintained in his Election, and this will be done through the ministry of the President. 4. On the occurrence of vacancies in any of the offices of the Society, whether by resignation or other- wise, the Society will elect other persons to such vacated office or offices to fill the same pro tempore, 5. The General Secretary, the Assistant Secretary and the Treasurer, will be chosen from amongst the members of the Society, and the discharge of their duty shall be gratuitous until it be deemed fit to allow them salaries. Hi CHAP. II. OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS. 1. The duty of the President or of the Vice-Pre- sidents (in the order in which they are named) will be to preside at all the sittings of the Society; to A 2 direct the debates ; to submit and explain the ques- tions discussed according to the sen'ill submit the same to the Committee of correspondence for its approval. He will keep a Methodical Register of the transactions of the Society, of the premiums or honorary rewards distributed by it ; of the objects for which they may have been conferred, together with the names of the individuals who have received them, their residence and the time of delivery ; ail advertisements, publica- tions, and other official documents will appear in his name, by order of the Society. 2. In the absence of the General Secretary, the Assistant Secretary shall discharge all his duties CHAP. IV. OF THE TREASURER 1. His duly will be to receive all the monies coming io the Society, and to account for the same to the Committee of accounts, as often as he may be required so to do by them; and he will deposit tlie funds of the Society in one of the incorporated Banks of this City. No sum whatever shall be paid by him out of the said funds without an express order from the Com- mittee of Accounts. 2. He will keep by him statements of all sums re- ceived, as well from annual subscription as through other means, and also statements of the monies ex- pended for the Society in the course of each year. He will have in his possession a list of the members of the Society, and at every general meeting will report to the Society the names of such of its members as may have neglected to pay their subscription money. All the receipts for subscriptions or for other sums re- ceived for the society will be signed by him on behalf of the Society. CHAP. V. OF THE SITTINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. There shall be four general sittings of the So- ciety in the course of each year, which will be held at six o'clock, P. M. in Winter, and at seven P. M. in Summer, on the first Thursday in June, September, December and March. These shall be called the ordinary sittings, but at these sittings an extraor- dinary sitting may be requested and convoked accord- ingly ; as also at the request of any five members during the intervals, in which latter case the Society shall be called together by order of the President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents, by giving one public notification thereof in two of the news- papers published at Quebec. 2. The quorum of the Society will consist of eleven members. 3. The annual meeting of the Society will be held on the first Thursday of March each year. 4. All decisions of the Society will be governed by the voice of the majority, those cases only excepted, where it is or might hereafter be otherwise provided. 5. The Society prohibits any discussion or delibcra- tion touching the religious or political affairs of this country. CHAP. VI. OF THE CLASSES. 1. With a view to afford every member an oppor- tunity of following, with advantage, any department of Knowledge to which he might be desirous of devo- ting particular attention, the Society will be divided into 3 Classes, which will have their respective and se- perate Sittings and deliberations. The first shall be called, the Commercial Class; its attention will be di- rected to Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures and Mechanics. ^ The second, «hall be called, the Literary Class ; it will comprehend Literature, History, Philol- ogy, Speculative Philosophy, the Polite Arts, and gen- erally all things connected with the dominion of the Imagination. The third, will be the Philosophic Class ; its objects will be Natural History, Chemistry, Bota- ny, Physics, Mathematics and all Natural Sciences. 2. The President of the Society and the four Vice Presidents will be, of right. Presidents of either of the Classes ; and each class shall moreover elect annually a Vice-President to provide in their absence ; and like- wise a Secretary for the year. 3. The Secretary of the respective Classes will de- posit with the General Secretary of the Society, the minutes of the proceedings of the Classes at each gener- al sitting of the Society, as also all other documents re- lative to such Class, when he shall cease to be such Sec- retary ; and it will be the duty of the General Secre- tary to put his Successor in possession of all such pa- pers and documents as were thus deposited with him. 4. All Communications in the intervals of ths sit- tings, between the Classes and the Society, shall be made by the Secretary of each Class to the General Secretary. 5. Every Class will be bound io submit to the Soci- ety at each of its ordinary general sittings, the various matters that may have been submitted to them respec- tively or to which they may havedeaired their attention, obferying to do so in such a form as to facilitate their examination by the Society. 6. Every Member of the Society shall be held, upon his admission thereto, to signify to the General Secre- tary the Class or Classes, to which he would be more particularly desirous to belong. It being well under- stood nevertheless that all the Members of one Class will have a right to assist at and take a part in the de- liberations of the other Classes. 7. The quorum of each of the Classes shall not be less than jive, including the President and Secretary, both of whom, in case of absence, shall be represented •pro tempore by such of the other Members as the Class- es may think fit to nominate to those offices respec- tively. 8. The general Secretary, the assistant Secretary and Treasurer, will enjoy all the rights and privileges of other Members with regard to the Classes, and shall be eligible to the offices of the several Classes ; provi- ded always that the General Secretary be ineligible to the Secretaryship of either of the Classes. 9. It will be the duty of each Class to propose to the Society such subjects as it may deem expedient to have the general voice upon, and to recommend such reward as it may conceive judicious, and all subjects thus recommended by a Class will always be referred to such Class whose business it will be to report upon the different productions of concurring candidates for the subjects proposed at a sitting to precede immedi- ately that at which the honorary reward shall be con- ferred. CHAPTER VII. OF THE MEMBERS THEIR DUTIES & THEIR PRIVILEGES. 1. No person shall be admitted as a Member of this Society, without having teen previously proposed by one member, seconded by another member, and without having obtained a majority of voices. But before he shall be thus proposed, it will be the duty of the Mem- ber proposing him, to give in to the General Secre- tary, at a previous sitting, a written document con- 8 taining the Name, Profession and Residence of the Candidate who shall not be ballotted but at the ensuing sitting. 2. Every person thus elected, shall pay before taking his seat, the amount of his annual subscription in the hands of the Treasurer. 3. Every Member shall pay annually in advance a sum not less than one guinea, and every Member who shall pay a sum not less than ten guineas will be exempt from all annual subscription and contributions and be called a Perpetual Member. 4. Ladies may also become Members of the Society and upon their being proposed by three Members, they shall be admitted without ballot. They only will have a right to vote at the Election of Officers by a proxy who will be bound to produce his authority in writing. 5. All the Members of the Clergies recognized by the law of the Country will also be elected without ballot, as also the Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils and the Members of the House of Assembly. 6. Such Members as shall not have paid the amount of their annual subscriptions, within one month after having been thereunto requested hy the Treasurer, shall be deprived of voting ; and at the expiration of six months their name shall betaken out of the list of Members (unless their neglect be caused by absence) But it is hereby provided that such Members may be afterwards re-elected, in the same manner as, if they had never been Members of the Society, upon their paying the arrears of subscription by them due. 7. Every duly elected Member shall receive upon payment of his subscription money, a Copy of the Rules and Orders of the Society, and there shall be given to each Member a Diploma under the hand of the President, countersigned by the General Secretary^ bearing the Seal of the Society, I CHAPTER YIIl. OF THE ilOSORARY AND CORllESPONDING MEMBLU.^. 1. The Society may appoint as Honorary Members, all persons residing out of Canada, who may be known by their worki; in any of the Departments of Arts and Sciences ; and as corresponding Members, those whose connexion with the Society might tend to the further- ance of its views. 2. Every person thus elected shall receive a Di- ploma to that eff'ect under the signature of the Presi- dent, countersigned by the General Secretary, and under the Seal of the Society. He will be free to as- sist at all the sittings of the Society, but shall have no voice in the deliberation, and shall be subject tu no contribution or subscription whatever. 3. It will be the duty of the General Secretary to communicate to every Honorary or Corresponding Member, such parts of the Rules and Orders of this So- ciety as it may be deemed fit they should know, signi- fying to them at the same time, the desire of the Society that each of its Members convey to it, all discoveries or ameliorations they may have occasion to make or which may have come to their knowledge in any of the departments of the .Sciences and Arts. CHAP. IX. 01'' THE COMMITTEES. 1. The Society may appoint, at all times Commit- tees to report on any subjects it may think fit to pro- pose, which Committees shall be in all cases, subject to the General Rules and Orders of the Society, with the power of naming such Otlicers and to make such rules as they may consider fit to maintain good order in their proceedings and facilitate their enquiries. 2. Every year there shall be appointed, 1st. a Com- mittee of accounts of w hich one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society will be President, and the Treasurer, of a number of" eiffht ; 2d. A Comniiltee of correspon- B io dence, of which the General Secrstary of the Societj shall be one. These Committees shall report once a year at least, and oftener if required by the Society. 3. Every Member of the Society may assist at all Classes, and take a part in the proceedings, and shall have a right to vote therein. 4. No Committee shall be allowed to examine other subjects than those which may have been referred to them. 5. Any Member proposing to name a Committee, vAW of right be a Member of such Committee. 6. The Quorum of a Committee will be the majority of its Members. 7. The Committees will have a right to requf^st the attendance or solicit information of any individual in or out of the Society, but they shall not grant or ten- der him any reward for his attendance v/ithout an ex- press order to that effect from the Society. 8. The Society may request such of its Members as reside out of the City of Quebec to form themselves into Committees of Correspondence, which shall be subject to the same duties and enjoy the same pri- vileges as the other Committees, and they shall re-i port their proceedings, through an honorary Secretary they will appoint to that effect, to the General Secre-- tary of the Society. 9. Each Corresponding Committee may recommend rewards or prizes for divers subjects it may approve, and then shall be conferred by such Committee with the sanction however of the Society which will be deemed to award them itself. 10. The Society trusts that all the Committees of Correspondence will convey to it all information that may come to their knowledge, particularly on Natur- Jil productions, as also the models or descriptions of the divers ameliorations that may have obtained the Arts, or any discovery in Science. CHAP. X. OF THE PRIZES OR REWARDS. ill pf the productions of genius atid itje efforts of indus* 11 try, by rewards and testimonials of approbation, the Society, will after the recommendation of each of the Classes, propose such rewards as it may think fit for the various subjects it may approve. 2. The Prizes or Rewards shall be awarded to those only who reside in Canada, the object being to eu' courage Arts and Science in this Country. 3. Every production of the Candidate for a prize shall be sent to the General Secretary under an enve- lope bearing a Motto, which motto shall also be set on sealed note, containing the Candidate's name. No pro- duction shall be received without the observance of this precaution, in order that the successful Candidate on- ly be known. 4. All persons, whether in or out of the Society may propose in his own name, any sul»ject, invention, dis- covery or amelioration, as worthy of a reward,where- upon the Society shall consider and award such prize or honorary reward as it may deem fit tmd proper. 5. The prizes shall be awarded at each of the ordi- nary General Meetings of the Society, through the Mi- nistry of the President, to the Candidate in person, and at these Meetings all the Members of the Society, will be at liberty to introduce as auditors their friends and acquaintances. (i. The productions of a candidate for the prizes of- fend by the Society or for any other subject that shall treat of the Sciences or Arts, shall be sent to the Gene- ral Secretary of the Society who will hand it over to the Secretary of the Class to which it may belong, which class shall proceed to the consideration of such produc- tion, and report its opinion thereupon to the Society. : Provided always that any production, for which the Society shall hav^ offered no prize or reward, may be sent under the name of the author, and although such production may not have been contemplated by the Society, it m:»y upon the recommendation of one of the Classes award for the same, such mark of approba- tion, premium or honorary reward as it may think proper. X. TESSIER, Genl. Secy,