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members from among the other
classes of the Institute. It may name a hundred correspondents, taken
from among the learned men of the nation, and those of foreign
countries.
III. The second class shall be composed of forty members.
It is particularly charged with the compilation and improvement of the
dictionary of the French tongue. With respect to language, it shall
examine important works of literature, history, and sciences. The
collection of its critical observations shall be published at least four
times a year.
It shall appoint from its own members, and with the approbation of the
First Consul, a perpetual secretary, who shall continue to make one of
the sixty members of whom the class is composed.
It may elect twelve of its members from among those of the other

classes of the Institute.
IV. The third class shall be composed of forty members and eight
foreign associates.
The learned languages, antiquities and ornaments, history, and all the
moral and political sciences in as far as they relate to history, shall be
the objects of its researches and labours. It shall particularly endeavour
to enrich French literature with the works of Greek, Latin, and Oriental
authors, which have not yet been translated.
It shall employ itself in the continuation of diplomatic collections.
With the approbation of the First Consul, it shall name from its own
members a perpetual secretary, who shall make one of the forty
members of whom the class is composed.
It may elect nine of its members from among those of the classes of the
Institute.
It may name sixty national or foreign correspondents.
V. The fourth class shall be composed of twenty-eight members and
eight foreign associates. They shall be divided into sections, named and
composed as follows:
Painting ten members. Sculpture six ditto. Architecture six ditto.
Engraving three ditto. Music (composition) three ditto.
With the approbation of the First Consul, it shall appoint a perpetual
secretary, who shall be a member of the class, but shall not make part
of the sections.
It may elect six of its members from among the other classes of the
Institute.
It may name thirty-six national or foreign correspondents.
VI. The associated foreign members shall have a deliberative vote only

for objects relating to sciences, literature, and arts. They shall not make
part of any section, and shall receive no salary.
VII. The present associates of the Institute, scattered throughout the
Republic, shall make part of the one hundred and ninety-six
correspondents, attached to the classes of the sciences, belles-lettres,
and fine arts.
The correspondents cannot assume the title of members of the Institute.
They shall drop that of correspondents, when they take up their
constant residence in Paris.
VIII. The nominations to the vacancies shall be made by each of the
classes in which those vacancies shall happen to occur. The persons
elected shall be approved by the First Consul.
IX. The members of the four classes shall have a right to attend
reciprocally the private sittings of each of them, and to read papers
there when they have made the request.
They shall assemble four times a year as the body of the Institute, in
order to give to each other an account of their transactions.
They shall elect in common the librarian and under-librarian, as well as
all the agents who belong in common to the Institute.
Each class shall present for the approbation of the government the
particular statutes and regulations of its interior police.
X. Each class shall hold every year a public sitting, at which the other
three shall assist.
XI. The Institute shall receive annually, from the public treasury, 1500
francs for each of its members, not associates; 6000 francs for each of
its perpetual secretaries; and, for its expenses, a sum which shall be
determined on, every year, at the request of the Institute, and comprised
in the budget of the Minister of the Interior.

XII. The Institute shall have an administrative commission, composed
of five members, two of the first class, and one of each of the other
three, appointed by their respective classes.
This commission shall cause to be regulated in the general sittings,
prescribed in Art. IX, every thing relative to the administration, to the
general purposes of the Institute, and to the division of the funds
between the four classes.
Each class shall afterwards regulate the employment of the funds which
shall have been assigned for its expenses, as well as every thing that
concerns the printing and publication of its memoirs.
XIII. Every year, each class shall distribute prizes, the number and
value of which shall be regulated as follows:
The first class, a prize of 3000 francs.
The second and third classes, each a prize of 1500 francs.
And the fourth class, great prizes of painting, sculpture,