JB/169/007/002

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Experimenting
Conduct of Experiments

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From p. 8.7. No 2

Office for receiving proposals for Experiments

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Names of proposers
to be concealed

kept secret

Let the Proposals to be distinguished not by the name of the
proposer, but withby a motto: as is the practise with
regard to subjects proposed for premiums by most of the foreign
Academies and other learned bodies. Or two mottos might
be required: | in order to guard against the contingency of two persons
pitching upon the same. |

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Advantages

Reasons

Advantages. 1. It guards against the paying more attention
to a proposal than it deserves, on account of the rank
connections or reputation of the proposer

2. It guards against the paying too little attention
to persons who are of low rank, who have be of no connections, do or who areas yet unknown.

3. It guards against the any injustice that might be donewhich to a
proposal might meet with

35. It saves the authors of wing to the proposers being obnoxious [+] ing persons unsuccessful proposals
from the mortification of having it known thatseeing their disappointments
made public their proposals are neglected.

56. It saves the inconvenience - if the public from the
adoption of unpromising proposals out of tenderness
to the proposers, and from the unwillingness
to expose them to the mortification above mentioned.

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Proposals to be enter'd copied LetThe proposals to be filed and copied into a Book.

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Their Dates to be noticed Let the date when each proposal is received be
enter'd

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Priority to gGive
preference Let them be taken into consideration considered according to their priority.
and as soon as deter

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Notice to be given
of pProceedings to be
advertized As soon as they any determination is come to with
respect to any proposal, let notice be given of such a determination it on
in some particular News paper.

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Day of each proposal Day when being received
to be mentioned
in the notice advertized. At the time that such notice is given let the day on which
the venture proposal was received be mentioned.

Advantages.

This will be a check upon the Commissioner to prevent their

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Identifier: | JB/169/007/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
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