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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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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

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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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