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 RULES TO BE OBSERVED AT MEETINGS, 
 
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
 
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 The Mechanics' Institute of St. John was organized in the 
 latter part of the year 183S by an Association of Gentlemen who 
 desired to found an Institution for the intellectual advancement 
 of Mechanics and others. 
 
 The Institute was incorporated by an Act of the Provincial 
 ^ Legislature, and the present building erected in i84$> The Build- 
 ing contains a spacious Lecture Hall, a Museum, a Library, 
 Reading Room, Conmiittec Room, and odier apartments. 
 
 A course comprising Lectures upon Literary and Scientific 
 subjects is held every year, usually commencing in November 
 and ending in March. The first Lectures were delivered before 
 the Institute in the winter of 1S38-9 ; and the Annual Course has 
 been continued since that time. The first Lectures in the present 
 Hall were delivered in December, I S40. 
 
 M 2nd Victoria — Chapter 18. 
 
 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAINT JOHN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. 
 
 Section i. — Incorporation of Institute. 
 
 Passed 23rd March, 1839. 
 
 Be it enacted, &c. — i. There shall be established and located 
 in the City of Saint John, an Association by the name of "The 
 Mechanics^ Institute of Saint John," for the purpose of instructing 
 Mechanics and others in popular and useful Science, and Beverley 
 Robinson, John Duncan. George D. Robinson, M. H. Perley, 
 John G. Sharp, William Jack, Alexander Lawrence, and such 
 other persons as are or may become members of the said Institute, 
 shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate for that 
 and no other purpose, by the name aforesaid, with all the general 
 powers and privileges incident to Corporadons by Act of Assembly 
 in this Province ; provided always that the real estate which the 
 said Corporadon may at any time hold shall, not exceed five 
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 rONSTTI UlION. 
 
 1. Tliis Soc'ic'tv shall be fk'noniinated the " Mechanics' Insti- 
 Ti'TK OK Saint John," and shall be provided with a Common 
 Seal, havin.q- thereon tlie device usually adopted by Mechanics' 
 Institutes in j^^-neral, viz.. a hand uplifted, holdini,^ a hammer. 
 
 2. Its ol)iect shall be the instruction of Mechanics and others in 
 popular and useful Science, and in its application to the Arts and 
 Manufactures, by means of Lectures, Apparatus, Models of Ma- 
 chinery, a Museum, a Library, and a School. 
 
 3. This Society shall consist of an unlimited number of Mem- 
 bers, who shall be di\ided into two classes, viz.. Regular and Life 
 Meml)ers ; Honorary and Corresponding Members. 
 
 4. Any |)erson paying Forty Dollars may become a Life Mem- 
 ber, provided he is recommended and chosen in the same way as 
 Regular Members; and such Life Members shall not be called 
 upon for any annual payments. 
 
 5. The officers of this Institute shall be a President, two Vice 
 Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a 
 Treasurer and twelve 'Directors, to be chosen annually by six 
 separate ballotings, the first fc^r President, the second for two Vice 
 Presidents, the third for Recording Secretary, the fourth lor Cor- 
 responding Secretary, the fifth for Treasurer, and the sixth for 
 twelve Directors. The member or members receiving the largest 
 number of votes shall be declared duly elected, provided however 
 that no member whose dues are unpaid, at the time of such elec- 
 tion, unless he shall have been exempted from payment of the 
 same by a vote of the Board of Directors, shall be eligible to office 
 or allowed to vote at such election. 
 
 6. The President, Vice Presidents, Secretaries, Treasurer and 
 Directors shall constitute a Board of Directors, with full powers 
 to appropriate funds, elect Members, and conduct the affairs of 
 the Institute. ' Not less tlian two -thirds of this Board must be > 
 operative Mechanics "0?" Manufacturers, lor persons directly en- '- 
 gaged or interested in Mechanical or Manufacturing pursuits. j. /O 
 
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 oi that i)urj)()se. the niinutc-s of all the transartioiis of the Institute. 
 
 IH- names oi Menihers. of donors, and all other matters reriuirino 
 
 to be recorded. Uv shall also receive all dues and donations in 
 
 money and pay the same over to the Treasurer, and take his 
 
 receipt for the same. 
 
 «. Ihe Treasurer shall receive all dues and donations in money 
 irom the Secretary, and .i^ive a receiot therefor; pav all amounts 
 ordered to be paid by the P.oard ; keep a re-ular account of the 
 linancial concerns of the Institute, an ab.^ tract of which, accompa- 
 nied u-ith satisfactory vouchers, he shall exhibit to the Hoard of 
 IJnectors, monthly, and at such other times as shall be required. 
 
 9. The Treasurer shall -i\e bonds to the Institute, with two 
 .tjood sureties, to be appn^xed of bv the Directors, in the sum of 
 iwo Ihousand Dollars, or in such further sum as to them mav 
 
 seem meet, lor the just renderin.t^ (,f his accounts, and payino- over 
 any balance remaimni^- in his hands when recjuired. 
 
 10. Every person, on becomin.^- a member, shall subscribe this 
 C^onstitution, and pay the sum of Two I dollars; and every Mem- 
 Dei s hall be suljiect to an annual i)ayment of Five Dollars, which 
 Miall be paid before he receives his ticket of admission to the Lec- 
 luies. J hree tickets of admission to the course of Lectures shall 
 be issued to each Member on the pavment of his annual dues, 
 which tickets shall be shown at the door on enterin--. 
 
 ^ II. The admission fee mav be increased in proportion to the 
 increased value of the property belon.i.ino- to the Institute; but 
 tljis cannot be done excej)t by a resolution passed at a C.eneral 
 Meetin|4'. 
 
 12. The Institute will crratefully recei\'e donations of Monev 
 
 nnr? a''.-^^-^?:^'^' •'' ^^■'''^''^' ''^' ^^^^^cJii'^ery, Drawings, or Natural 
 and Arihcial Curiosities, which donaticjns, to.^ether with the names 
 ot the donors, shall be registered in the books of the Society, kept 
 for that purpose. ^ ^ 
 
 ^^■Jat"^'?"'*''.^ Meeting- of this Societv shall be held on the 
 second Monday in A})ril, to audit accounts, elect officers, and 
 transact other business coiinected with the Institute. 
 
 14. The annual Tickets of Regular and Life Members may be 
 ransferred ; but persons to whom they are transferred shall not 
 be admissible to any office, or vote. The management of the In- 
 stitute shall be x'ested solely in the Life Members and such of the 
 Regular Members as shall be eligible to any office, and entitled 
 to vote on all questions connected with the Institute. 
 
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 15. Til order to preserve the harmony of the Institute, nothing 
 of an irreligious tendency, or which may involve ri'li^-ious or 
 political controversy, shall be admissible, on any account, at any 
 nu'etini^f of the Institute. 
 
 16. In order to make the Insdtution as generally useful as pos- 
 sible, any person shall be entitled to the privilej^c of reading from 
 the library and attendini,^ the Lectures, or any other course of 
 Instruction that may be ,uiven in the Institution, for one year, on 
 pavini;- such a sum as the Hoard of Directors shall determine; but 
 such jxrson shall not be entitled to any share in the management 
 of the Institute-, nor eli_iL;il.)le to otTice, nor entitled to vote at any 
 meeting whatex'er. 
 
 17. This Societ\' shall be permanent, and its proi)erty unalien- 
 able, but each Member shall have ])ower to transier his share, 
 pro\ide(l such transfer is approved of by the Board of Directors, 
 in the same manner as the admission of new Members. 
 
 1 8. Any i)roposal to alter or amend the Constitution or any of 
 the By Laws of the Institute, must be made in writing and deliv- 
 ered to the ^Secretary, at least thirty days before the meeting of 
 the Institute at which it is ])roposed to discuss the same; and the 
 Secretary shall read the same at such meeting, and the proposed 
 amendment or alteradon shall l)e adopted or rejected by a majority 
 of the Members voting, provided however that a brief statement of 
 the substance of such ])roposed amiMidment must be published in a 
 newspa|)er published in the City of Saint John at least six times 
 before the time of such meeting. 
 
 19. Any person having been once elected a member of the In- 
 stitute, and having paid his initiation fee, and having allowed his 
 annual subscription to lapse, may be restored to membership 
 without the repayment of his initiation fee. 
 
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 I St^eclal M etin^s of the Institute may be called by the I resi- 
 (luu, oV in his absence, by either ol the Vice Presidents, vvhenevjer 
 he may deem them necessary, or when reciuested m wntmo- by 
 twentv Members. 
 
 2. Twenty-five Members shall constitute a quorum for the tran- 
 saction of business. 
 
 -i The Recordino- Secretary shall oive public notice in one or 
 more of the citv papers, not less ih.an three days previous to every 
 Annual and Special Meetino- of the Institute. 
 
 DIRECTION. 
 
 1. The Reo-ular Meetin^^s of the Board of Directors shall be held 
 on the first 'fhursday in every month. 
 
 2. Special Meetin.^s of the Board of Directors may be called by 
 order of the President, or in his absence, by either of the \ ice 
 Presidents. 
 
 -i The Board of Directors shall keep full and accurate niinutes 
 of d.e transactions of the Board, and at the f^^"'^^^^. .^^^^^.^f^^;^ 
 the Institute rq)ort their proceeding-s, together with a general 
 statement of the affairs of the Institute. 
 
 4. Anv vacancy which may occur in the Board of ^^'I'ec^ors by 
 death, resignation, or otherwise, may be filled up by tne Board of 
 Directors at any meeting thereoi. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 I Every Member, on i)avment of the admission fee, shall receive 
 a Certificate of Membership, which he shall produce as proof o^ 
 his membership when requested ; but no member shall ^^^ entitled 
 to any of die privileges of the Institute whose dues shall be in 
 .irrear. 
 
 o The Board of Directors may erase from die roll of Members 
 the name of an.v Member whose dues have remained in arrear loi 
 a longer period than one year, or who shall be guilty of any iin- 
 proper conduct as a Mem!)er of the Institute, and the s ock o any 
 person so exj^elled shall be considered as forfeited to the Institute 
 unless otherwise ordered. 
 
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 -,. In case any Member wishes to vvithch-aw from thr Instiuitc 
 and transfer his' membership, he shall give notice thereof in writmg 
 to die Board of I>)irectors, and shall state the name ot the person 
 to whom the share is to be transferretl, and such transter shall be 
 made in writing, and in the following form : 
 
 Form of Transif-R.— " I do hereby transfer my stock, i^rivilege, 
 
 and interest in the Mechanics' Institute of St. John, to ^ • 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 And when such transfer shall be approved In' the Board of Direc- 
 tors, and endorsed thus— " Approved, 
 
 President ( or Chairman)," 
 
 and shall have been entered in the records of the Institute, it shall 
 be considered as complete. 
 
 4. Honorary Members shall be elected in the same manner as 
 Regular and Life Member^. 
 
 5. Persons who shall have rendered some signal service in 
 Science or the Arts, or the Institute, may be candidates lor Hon- 
 orary Membership. 
 
 6. Corresponding Members shall be such as do not reside in the 
 City of St. John, nor its immediate \icinity. 
 
 7. Coriesponding Members shall be elected in the same manner 
 as Regular and Honorarv Members, and shall not be subject to 
 any charge for vearlv dues. It shall be their duty to communi- 
 cate from time to time such information as may be in their i)osses- 
 sion relative to impiuvements and discoveries in the Arts and 
 Sciences. 
 
 8 All Regular and Life Members, in remo\ing from the City 
 and County ''of St. John, may become Corresi)onding Members, 
 subject to the same regulation as regularly elected Corresponding 
 Members. 
 
 Q Whenever a Corresponding Member moves to th(^ City and 
 County of St. John, he may become a Regular Member l)y paying 
 the annual dues. 
 
 10. A Member's Ticket shall admit the Member and two others 
 to the Museum. Anv Member may introduce a stranger to the 
 Lectures and Museum by writing his or her name on a card 
 together with the signature of die Member introducing, whicli card 
 shall in all cases be left with the door keeper. 
 
 11. A Committee of three Meml)ers. not being officebearers, 
 shall be appointed at each Annual Meeting, whose duty it shall be 
 to examine and audit the Reports and Accounts ot the Secretary 
 and Treasurer, and to report thereon ; and it shall be the duty ot 
 the Board of Directors to cause the Reports and Accour.ts ot the 
 
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 Secretary and Treasurer, a list of the Members eligible to office 
 and entided to vote, and all such other matters as they may deem 
 advisable to be printed and ready for distribution before the An- 
 nual Meeting. 
 
 RULES TO BE OBSERVED AT MEETINGS. 
 
 1. Any Member wishing to speak, must rise inhis place and 
 address the presiding officer. When two or more rise at the same 
 
 .t-ime, the Chairman shall decide who has the preference. 
 
 2. No motions shall be considered before the meeting unless it 
 has been seconded, when the Chairman shall declare whether it is 
 in order. 
 
 3. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except while 
 any Member is addressing the meeting. 
 
 4. An amendment, except to a modon to adjourn, is at all times 
 in order ; and if it be accepted by the mover of the resolution, the 
 question shall be on the motion as amended ; if not, the question on 
 the amendment shall be first taken ; except that in filling blanks, 
 the largest sum, and longest time shall be put first. An amend- 
 ment to a motion to adjourn, as to time and place, shall also be in 
 order. 
 
 5. A Member shall not speak more than twice on any question, 
 without permission from the Chairman. 
 
 6. When a question is under debate, no motion can be received, 
 unless to amend, to postpone, for the previous question, or to 
 adjourn. 
 
 7. Questions of order shall be decided by the Chairman without 
 debate. Any Member may appeal from the decision of the Chair- 
 man to the meeting, which shall confirm or reverse his decision 
 without discussion. 
 
 8. Committees shall be appointed by the Chairman, unless nomi- 
 nated by a majority of the meeting. 
 
 9. Any motion, proposition, or resolution ofifered by any Mem- 
 ber shall be delivered in writing, and signed by the mover, when 
 required by the Chairman. 
 
 10. The following shall be the Order of Business to be observed 
 at meetings : 
 
 Reading the Minutes. 
 Reports from Officers. 
 Reports from Board of Directors. 
 Reports from Committees. 
 Essays and Communications. 
 Resolutions. 
 
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 REGULATIONS. 
 
 The Library and Reading Room shall be under the direction 
 of the Board of Directors. The Library shall be kept open regu- 
 larly on the evenings of every Monday and P>iday (holidays 
 excepted), from seven to eight o'clock during the months of 
 November, December, January, February, March, and April, and 
 from eight to nine during the remainder of the year. 
 
 The Reading Room shall be kept open every evening ( Satur- 
 day and Sunday excepted, ) from seven to half-past nine o'clock. 
 
 THE READING ROOM. 
 
 1. No conversation shall be allowed in the Reading Room. 
 
 2. No person shall be permitted to smoke in the Rooms, or in- 
 jure the furniture, or conduct himself in any way inconsistent with 
 decorum. 
 
 3. Any Member mutilating any of the periodicals or papers, shall 
 be liable to a fine equal to twice the cost thereof 
 
 4. No periodical shall be removed from the Reading Room 
 until one month shall have elapsed from the time of its being re- 
 ceived ; nor then unless the next succeeding number shall have 
 been received. 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 1. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Librarian, to continue 
 in office during good behaviour. 
 
 2. No persons, except Members of the Board, shall be suffered 
 to move a book from its place in the Library, without permission 
 of the Librarian. 
 
 3. No Member shall be entitled to receive a book from the 
 Library until he shall have paid all sums due from him to the 
 Institute. 
 
 4. Each Member shall have the privilege of using any of the 
 books from the Library in the Reading Room, though at the same 
 time in possession of a book belonging to the Institute ; yet it will 
 be considered as an invariable rule that such book must be resigned 
 to any Member drawing it from the Library. 
 
 5. Deposited books and those marked in the Catalogue with an 
 asterisk, together with such other works as the Board shall from 
 time to time designate as Books of Reference, shall not be taken 
 from the Rooms, except by special perm.ission of the Board. 
 
 6. A Member applying for books shall receive but one vol- 
 ume at a time, except when the plates belonging to the works are 
 bound in a separate volume, when that also shall be delivered 
 if required. 
 
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 _ 7- A folio or quarto may be kept three weeks ; any other 
 sized work, two weeks. Any person (k'tainin.q- a book longer, 
 shall j)ay a fine of five cents for each night the Library is open 
 ;dter the same should have been returiiecl, and shall be debarred 
 Irom the use of the Library until such fine be paid. 
 
 8. If any book be lost or defaced, the person who took the same 
 out of the Library shall pay the original vahje of it, (or of the set, 
 it it belongs to one, and in that case he shall have die remaining 
 \olumes as his own property,; and shall not be allowed to take any 
 other books from the Library until the loss has been made good. 
 
 9. Every Member requiring a book for use in the Reading 
 Room, shall enter the title of the same, with his signature, in a 
 Register to be kept for that purpose ; the Librarian shall counter- 
 sign the entry when the book is returned into his possession. 
 
 10. No Member shall be allowed to write in any of the books 
 l^elonging to the Library ; he shall also be responsible for its loss 
 if not returned agreeably to the preceding regulation. 
 
 ir. All works on Party Politics and Controversial Theology 
 shall be excluded from the Library, as inconsistent with the objects 
 oi the Institution. 
 
 12. In order to guard against the possible introducdon of im- 
 moral works, all books presented to the Institution shall be subject 
 to the approval of the Board of Directors, before they are placed 
 in the Library. 
 
 13. A stamp shall be procured, having on it " Mfxhanics' 
 Institute, St. John," with which distinct impressions shall be 
 stamped in various places in and upon each book, and upon plates, 
 maps, &c. 
 
 14. There shall be a printed Catalogue of the books with a num- 
 ber affixed to each volume, so that when a person wants a book he 
 may mention the number. The books shall be delivered in the 
 order of application, and if a particular book shall be required, and 
 It be already engaged, the party applying may enter the name of 
 It with the Librarian, who shall detain it for him when it is return- 
 ed into the Library. A written Catalogue of such books as may 
 from time to dme be added to the Library, shall be hung up in the 
 Library Room till printed Catalogues can be prepared. 
 
 15. In order that the Directors may be enabled to report the 
 state of the Library at the Annual Meeting, all the books must be 
 m on the first Monday in April, under the penalty often cents for 
 a duodecimo, twenty cents for an octavo, and forty cents for a 
 quarto, per volume, for every day they may be detained beyond 
 the period. The Library at this time shall be closed for a week. 
 
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