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APPENDIX VI.

ABSTRACT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.

SECTION I.—MEMBERS.

1. THE Society shall consist of Forty Members, who shall be called Academicians of the Academy.

2. There shall be another order, or rank, of Members, not exceeding Twenty in number, who shall be called Associates of the Royal Academy.

3. There shall be another class of Members, not exceeding four in number, consisting of Academicians and Associates, who shall be called Academician-Engravers, and Associate-Engravers of the Royal Academy. Such class, not exceeding four, may, at the discretion of the Academy, consist of a less number, and the proportion of Academicians shall not exceed two.

Note. That although such class of Engravers shall be considered as before a distinct class, their privileges and obligations as Associate and Academician-Engravers shall in no other respect differ from those respectively of the Twenty Associates and Forty Academicians.

That future vacancies in the original class of Six AssociateEngravers shall not be filled up.

4. They shall all of them be men of fair moral characters, of high reputation in their several professions; resident in the United Kingdom, and not Members of any other Society of Artists established in London.

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HONORARY MEMBERS.

5. There shall be a Chaplain, of high rank in the Church. There shall be a Professor of Ancient History, a Professor of Ancient Literature, an Antiquary, and a Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, men of distinguished reputation.

SECTION II. - GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIETY.

1. The government of the Society is vested in a President and Council, and the General Assembly.

2. PRESIDENT.-The President shall be annually elected.

3. The President shall have power to summon the Council and General Assembly of the Academicians, as often as he shall think it necessary, but shall have no vote in either, unless the suffrages are equal, in which case he shall have the casting vote.

4. The President shall have power to nominate one of the Council to act as President in his absence.

5. The President, or his Deputy, and no other person, shall have power to summon either the Council or General Assembly.

6. The President shall convene a General Assembly, whenever five or more Academicians may apply to him, in writing, for that purpose.

7. COUNCIL. The Council shall consist of eight Academicians and the President, who shall have the entire direction and management of all the business of the Society.

8. The seats in the Council shall go by succession to all the Academicians, except the Secretary, who shall always belong thereto. The four Senior Members of the Council shall go out

by rotation every year, and these shall not reoccupy their seats in the Council till all the rest of the Academicians have served.

9. The new-elected Academicians (having received their diplomas) shall be placed at the top of the List, and serve in the succeeding Council.

10. Whenever an Academician shall from any cause decline to be a Member of the Council in regular rotation, or be disqualified by accepting any office incompatible with it, his name shall be passed on, and his claim to a seat in it forfeited, till it shall again appear in regular rotation.

11. If any Member of the Council shall have failed to attend in his place for eight successive Meetings, such Member shall be considered as having vacated his seat in the Council, and the seat so vacated shall be filled according to the provisions of the following Law.

12. 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, or on the Keeper, should the Treasurer be of the Council by rotation.

The vacant seat for the second year shall be declared by the President, at the Annual General Meeting on the 10th of December; and after the usual nomination of persons to serve by rotation in the ensuing Council, a Member shall be appointed by lot, from amongst all the Academicians (except those who serve by rotation the succeeding year), to supply the vacancy so declared.

The appointment by lot shall be in the following manner:

The name of each Academician present, written by himself, and each absent Academician, written by the Secretary, shall be put in a box, and shaken together; the President shall then draw forth one name, which shall decide the appointment.

When the seat of a Member of Council shall have become vacant within the second year of the period of his service, the residue of the said second year shall be supplied according to the regulation before applied to the residue of the first

year.

13. The List 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 Members of the Council, according to the order of election of Academicians.

14. The President and Secretary being always of the Council, their names are to be omitted in such List of Rotation.

15. The names of Academicians, whose permanent residence is more than six miles from the Royal Academy, Trafalgar Square, shall be omitted in the lists delivered out for the succession of Council.

16. The Council shall meet as often as the business of the Society shall require it.

17. A meeting of Five Members of the Council, including the President or his Deputy, shall be deemed a Quorum.

18. In the absence of the President or his Deputy, it shall be in the power of five in the Council to nominate a Chairman for that Meeting, and proceed to business.

19. The Secretary to draw the line in the book of attendance of the Council, immediately at the expiration of half an hour after the time of meeting specified in the summons: Members not attending before the line is drawn, to forfeit their share of the remuneration of Council.

20. Members withdrawing from Council before the business of the evening is concluded, and so reducing the number below a Quorum, the Meeting can no longer be deemed a Quorum.

21. The Council shall frame all new Laws, but they shall have no force till ratified by the consent of the General Assembly, and the approbation of the QUEEN.

22. All Laws, which may from time to time be made by the Council, shall be confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Council, before they are presented to the General Assembly of the Academicians for their consent.

23. All the Officers and Servants of the Academy shall be subservient to the Council.

24. 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 QUEEN's permission first obtained for that purpose, to suspend, or entirely remove from their employments, those who shall be found guilty of any great offences.

25. No Correspondence whatever, connected with the business of the Royal Academy, shall be carried on without the concurrence of the Council; the routine business of departments excepted.

26. All business relative to the Royal Academy, which is to be laid before HER MAJESTY, after it has been settled by the Council in the usual form, shall be presented to the QUEEN by the President, attended either by the Secretary or the Treasurer, as the nature of the business shall require, and they shall make report to the Council, of HER MAJESTY'S pleasure thereon.

27. A Committee, consisting of two of the Senior Members of the Council, shall annually, with the assistance of the Librarian, examine the state of the Books, Prints, &c., in the Library, and report such improvements as may be necessary, within one month from the close of the Exhibition.

28. A Committee, consisting of two of the Senior Members of the Council, shall annually, with the assistance of the Keeper, examine the Models, Casts, &c., belonging to the Royal Academy, and report such improvements as may be necessary, within one month from the close of the Exhibition.

29. Four Members of the Council for each year, the two seniors, by rotation, for the first six months, and the two next for the last six months, shall be Inspectors of Casts, Prints, &c., imported by British Artists, and by Foreign Artists being Members of the Royal Academy, for their own use, conformably with the regulations established by the Lords of the Treasury.

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