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 RtJLE S 
 
 OF THE 
 
 'HALIFAX MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 
 
 AS REVISED AND 
 
 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY: 
 
 AT A SPECl^AL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS 
 
 HELD FOR THAT PURPOSE, 
 
 At the iiecture Room? DalhoQsie CoUege, 
 
 September 19, 1849. 
 
 HALIFAX: 
 
 A. J. RITCHIE, FRirtTER. 
 
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t U L E S • 
 
 obje:^ts. 
 
 1. The Objects of the Halifax Mechanics' totitute shall 
 be, the cultivation and diffusion of knowledge, in the Arts, 
 Sciences, and General Literature, — and the collection of 
 modeb, drafts, specimens, books of referencOj and other 
 materials, tending to instruction and improvement 
 
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 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 2. Membership of the Institute shall consist of sub- 
 scription and conformity to its Rules,— payment of Ten 
 Shillings entrance fee, and Five Shillings annually, for 
 receipt of which Tickets shall be given ; — also the pos- 
 session of an (Honorary Member's Ticket, by vote of the 
 Institute, — and of a Perpetual Member*s Ticket, — by dona- 
 tion, as elsewhere provided — shall constitute regular Mem- 
 bership. 
 
 3. Member^ shall be deemed the vested proprietors of 
 the Museum, ^nd other property of the Institute,— for Insti- 
 tute purposes,4-and shall have the government of the Insti- 
 tute, as office jbearers and voters at General Meetings. 
 
 4. Each Member shall have the privilege of holding 
 Session Tickets for one lady and two minors, on paying 
 Six Shillings and Three Pence for such Tickets. The terra 
 minors shall apply to apprentices, during apprenticeship, — « 
 and to others ifiot above fourteen years of age- 
 
 5. Persons Knay forfeit the privilege of Membersh'i, by 
 vote of expulsion, for non-compliance with the rules, jt for 
 disorderly conduct : the non-payment of annual fee for two 
 years in succeasion, shall constitute an act of non-compli- 
 
4 RULES. 
 
 ance, which may be visited with expulsion, provided previous 
 written notice be given to the non-complying Member. 
 
 6. Annual and other fees of the Institute shall be paid, 
 before the right of voting at General Meetings can be 
 exercised, or eligibility to Office be possessed. 
 
 7. Person^ may be elected Honorary Members of the 
 Institute, in consideration of services performed, or as a 
 mark of respect for high character or attainments ; such 
 Members to oe free from the usual pecuniary charges of th? 
 Institute : the mode of election shall be nomination anil tip- 
 proval by Gomraittee,— recommendation from Committee tJ 
 a Oenei-al Meeting,— and vote of such General Meeting. 
 
 8. Persons may necome Perpietual or Life Members, b^ a 
 Donation of Five Pounds ; — such Members to be free from 
 the usual fees of the Institute. 
 
 9. Members shairhave the privilege of introducing to the 
 Lecture Eoom, non-residents of Halifax, on each evening of 
 Lecture. 
 
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 OFFICERS. ^ 
 
 10. The Office-bearers of the Institute shall be, a Presi- 
 dent, two Vice Presidents, — Tfeasurer, Secretary, Curator, 
 and Committee of nine persons, — who shall be chosen 
 annually, by nomination and ballot, or unanitnous vote. 
 The General Committee shall consist of the fifteen Office- 
 bearers, — eight of whom shall form a quorum for tran- 
 saction of business. ' 
 
 11. The duty df the Secretary shdl be to keep the records 
 of the Institute, and perform such other business of hia 
 office, as shall be directed by the Managing Committee;-^ 
 The Secretary shall receive a yearly sum of not more than 
 Fifteen Pounds, which shall include usual expenses for 
 Stationery and Committee Summonses. 
 
 12. The duty of the Curator shall be to ke^pthe Museum 
 and Lecture feoom in good order, to keepi a list of the 
 articles in each room, and to attend to such otfer duties of his 
 
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 RULES. 
 
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 office, as shall be directed by the Committee. Tho Curator 
 shall be allowed such sum as the Committee shall determine 
 for an assistant in those duties, or for nppropriatiou as he 
 shall see fit: this sum to include the pa.y of Doorkeepers of 
 tJie Lecture Room. 
 
 13. The Curator may provide models or plans for Lectur- 
 ers, which shall be paid for from the funds of the Institute ; 
 such expenditure not to exceed one pound for any one Lec- 
 ture, unless a greater sum be sanctioned by vote of the 
 Committee. Articles so provided shall be the property of 
 the Institute. 
 
 MEETINGS. 
 
 14. The Institute shall meet one evening in each weel?, 
 viurirtg; Ssssions, for ^h9- hearing of Lectures : the chair to 
 be taSeu at p qv^artei pas^i eight o'clock. 
 
 a5. At tliC conclusion of each Lecture, questions may be 
 iisked, or additional inlbrraation imparted, by conversation 
 or otherwise, respecting the subject of the evening. The 
 conversations, in which strangers present shall be permitted 
 to join, to be a means, not of introducing criticisms on Lec- 
 tures, but of further developing subjects or topics in a fami- 
 liar and ami^ able way. Persons delivering their view» 
 or opinions U> the Institute, except while lecturing, shall 
 address the cliairman. Lecture meetings shall terminate 
 at, or about, ten o'clock. 
 
 16. At the conclusion of conversations on Lectures, other 
 matters relatiye to the Institute may be introduced, by 
 written proposition, — such matters not to be put to vote 
 before the nei^t weekly or other general meeting of the 
 Institute. I 
 
 17. A general meeting, for election of officebearers, shall 
 be held one n^onth previous to tiie ocmclusion of each Ses- 
 sion, — the office bearers then elected shall not enter on the 
 duties of their offices until the concluding evening of the 
 Session,— when they shall be announced by the chairman 
 
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 RULES. 
 
 of the evening, who shall then vacate tlie chaij in favor of 
 the chairman elect, — except re-election prevent this arrange- 
 ment 
 
 18. The General Committee shall meet onco in each 
 month, or more frequently, if necessary, as a Committee of 
 Management ; they shall have the superintendance of ail 
 Institute luatters, which do not require reference to a gene- 
 ral meeting of members. 
 
 LECTURES, &C. i 
 
 19. The Committe*3 shall provide for tlile delivery of 
 Lectures, weekly, during each Session,— -andi may establish 
 Educational Classes, and offer prizes for Esub&ys, Models, 
 
 •&c. I , 
 
 20. The Committee may provide for the payment of Lec- 
 turers occasionc lly ; no Lecture lo be paid for, ejrcept a 
 proposition to t'lat effect be made previously, at a regular 
 Committee Meeting, and be there adopted. ^ 
 
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 ORDER. j 
 
 21. Discussions on party or domestic pplitics, and on 
 controverted religious topics, shall be prohibited. 
 
 22. The Chairman shall have authority to j()reserve order, 
 by reproof, or reference to the Committee, or expulsion from 
 the room ; — the Committee may exclude disc^rderly persons 
 from membership and its privileges. | 
 
 TICKETS. 
 
 23. Beside Tickets of Membership,— Session Tickets, for 
 persons not members, shall be issued, at the following prices : 
 Gentlemen's Seven Shillings and Six Pence, Ladies' Five 
 Shillings,— Minor's Five Shillings. 
 
 26. The Committee shall have power to is^ue Tickets of 
 Admission to Single Lectures, at One Shilling and Three 
 
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 Pence each Ticket, when suitable lecture room, or other 
 circunwtances warrant such ijsue. 
 
 m.^- f*^\j^.^^V^^e'^^raay issue not more than twelve 
 Tickets of Admission for the evening of his Lecture. 
 
 LEGISLATURE. 
 
 *k5?V ^^"»J^n to Lectures of the Institute shall be free to 
 the Members of the Legislature. 
 
 HULES. 
 
 ..iS* ^^°® ^l ?® foregoing Rules shall be altered, set 
 aside, or annulled, unless with the approbation of a majority 
 
 forX pu^sT ^'^^''^ *^ * General Meeting, duly calleJ