College. Applications for Enrolment should be directed to the Local Secretary of the Centre in which the Institution is situate, or if there be no Centre, to the Secretary, from whom all necessary particulars may be had.

MEMBERSHIP of the College is obtainable by election, and on payment of an admission fee of One Guinea, and also of an annual subscription of One Guinea. Honorary Members have free access to the Library of Music and General Literature; the privilege of competing for the various College Prizes; free Enrolment of one Institution in union; right of attendance at all ordinary meetings of the College in London and the provinces; special tickets of admission to all the central College Festivals; right of representation on the College Senate; a free copy of the College Calendar for the current year, and the Journal adopted by the College, &c. 'House' Members have in addition (on payment of a further annual subscription of One Guinea) the free use of the Reading Rooms of the College, &c.

RESERVE AND ENDOWMENT FUNDS have recently been formed and placed under the care of Trustees, viz.—(1) the Reserve Fund, which will be available at any time with the consent of the Trustees, for meeting any urgent and exceptional demand for money, such as is necessarily felt by every public institution from time to time; (2) the Endowment Fund, which will not be so available, but will be permanently invested in the names of the Trustees in Consols, or some other public security, to form the nucleus of a fixed and guaranteed income for the College. Further particulars, with the names of the Trustees, will be forwarded on application.

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PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS OF THE
COLLEGE.1

I. THERE shall be a Council, an Academical Board, and a representative Senate of the College.

OBJECTS OF THE COLLEGE.

II. The following shall be the objects of the College; -(a) To advance the Art and Science of Music and to improve the Professional and Technical Education and General Culture of Musical and other Students. (B) To cultivate a closer union and sympathy, and to provide facilities for intellectual and social intercourse between Students of the Art and Science of Music and those attached to the pursuit of the Sister Arts and Sciences; to promote the consideration and discussion of all questions affecting the Education or welfare of Musical and other Students, and to provide for the delivery of Lectures on Musical and other subjects, and the holding of public meetings, conversazioni, performances, exhibitions, classes, conferences, and other assemblies whereby the public is sought to be intellectually or morally benefited. (y) To ascertain by means of Public Examinations, Competitions, or other legitimate tests or modes of inquiry, the persons who have acquired proficiency in Music or in any branch thereof, and to grant to such persons Diplomas or Certificates of proficiency, and other awards or distinctions proportioned to their respective attainments; and also to confer honorary distinctions upon Persons who have rendered important services to Music or Literature, Science or Art, or any branch thereof. (8) To promote the recognition and encouragement of exceptional merit and learning by the institution and presentation of Scholarships, Exhibitions, Grants, Medals, or other Prizes or Benefactions to deserving persons.

1 From the Articles of the Foundation.

(e) To do all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of these objects or any of them.

OF THE COLLEGE COUNCIL.

III. There shall be a Council which shall be called the College Council, and shall consist of the Warden, Registrar, Bursar, and Honorary Secretary of the College, and of the other Members for the time being of the Corporation.

POWERS OF THE COLLEGE COUNCIL.

IV. The Council shall determine the functions of the respective Officers, frame Bye-laws, and generally govern the College in the spirit of these Articles. The Council shall, subject to the Corporation, have the right of supreme and final decision and control in all matters relative to the management and finance of the College.

MEETINGS, PROCEEDINGS, &C., OF THE COLLEGE

COUNCIL.

V. The Ordinary Meetings of the Council shall take place four times a year. Extraordinary Meetings may at any time be summoned by the Secretary, or on a requisition made to the Secretary signed by any five Members. The Warden shall preside at all Meetings, and in his absence the Council may elect one of themselves to take the chair. The Secretary shall be required to send notices of each Meeting, together with the agenda thereof, to every Member of the Council at least seven days before the date of Meeting. Five Members shall form a quorum, and all questions shall be decided by vote of Members present, the Chairman being empowered to give a second or casting vote in the event of an equal number of votes on either side.

NAMES OF FIRST MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE COUNCIL.

VI. The following shall be the first Members of Council:-Benjamin Agutter, Esquire, Bachelor in Music of the University of Oxford; George William

Bloxam, Esquire, Master of Arts of the University of Cambridge; Croft Worgan Dew, Esquire, Master of Arts of the University of Cambridge, and of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law; Albert Edwin Drinkwater, Esquire, Master of Arts of the University of Oxford; The Reverend Robert Gwynne, Clerk, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Dublin; Edward John Hopkins, Esquire, Organist to the Honourable Societies of the Inner and Middle Temple; the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt, Clerk, Bachelor in Music of the University of Oxford; William James Jennings, Esquire, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Cambridge; Joseph Gordon Saunders, Esquire, Doctor in Music of the University of Oxford; Humphrey John Stark, Esquire, Bachelor in Music of the University of Oxford; John Stedman, Esquire, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; Llewelyn Thomas, Esquire, Doctor in Medicine, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Bradbury Turner, Esquire, Bachelor in Music of the University of Cambridge; and Edmund Hart Turpin, Esquire.

OF THE HONORARY OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE.

VII. There shall be the following Principal Executive Officers, who must all be Members of the Corporation, and whose services shall be honorary :-Warden, Registrar, Bursar, and Honorary Secretary; all to be ex officio Members of the Council. The Council may from time to time appoint these officers, and may determine their duties, powers, functions, and privileges.

VIII. The following appointments are hereby made, and each of the appointees shall respectively be entitled as Founders to hold office for life :

The Rev. Henry George Bonavia Hunt, Mus.B., to be the first Warden.

Humphrey John Stark, Esquire, Mus. B., to be the
first Registrar.

Bradbury Turner, Esquire, Mus. B., to be the first
Bursar.

John Stedman, Esquire, to be the first Honorary
Secretary.

IX. The Council may also from time to time appoint and remove the following Honorary Officers, who may be Members of the Council or not as the Council may from time to time determine :-Visitor (who shall be of the Blood Royal or a Peer of this Realm); President; Vice-President (one or more); Chaplain (one or more); Præcentor; Organist; Librarian; Physician; Surgeon; Trustees, &c., the mode of election or resignation and their tenure of office, duties, and functions to be determined in each case by the Council.

OF THE ACADEMICAL BOARD OF THE COLLEGE.

X. The active and detailed management of the College shall be placed under the control of an Academical Board, to be constituted as follows:-The Warden, Registrar, Bursar, and Honorary Secretary to be Members thereof ex officio; and not more than eight other persons to be elected annually in the month of June by vote of the Council. The Members thus elected shall be eligible for re-election. The duties of the Academical Board shall be-1. To meet once a fortnight, or more often if necessary, during term time for the transaction of business. 2. To appoint, reappoint, or remove Professors, Lecturers, Examiners, and Local Secretaries. 3. To fix and assign the dates and subjects of the Public Examinations and Lectures of the College, and to enact bye-laws and other regulations in respect of the same. 4. To admit and remove Members of the College and Institutions in Union. 5. To appoint Provincial Branches and Local Centres for Examination. 6. To discharge all other routine or urgent business connected with the College. 7. To exercise such powers of the Corporation as shall from time to time be vested in them by the Corporation. The Warden shall be Chairman of the Board, and the Registrar shall act as Secretary; and three Members shall form a quorum. At each Ordinary Meeting of the Council the Registrar shall present a Report of the proceedings of the Academical Board in the interval between such Ordinary Meeting and the Ordinary Meeting of the Council last past; and the Bursar