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such rules and provisions, and procure the corres-
pondent regulations on the part of the public in-
stitutions referred to, as they may deem necessary
to accomplish the object.
Third. I wish, also, that the Institute shall em-
brace within its plan an Academy of Music, adap-
ted in the most effective manner to diffuse and
cultivate a taste for that, the most refining of all
the arts. By providing a capacious and suitably
furnished saloon, the facilities necessary to the best
exhibitions of the art, the means of studying its
principles and practising its compositions, and pe-
riodical concerts, aided by the best talent and most
eminent skill within their means to procure, the
trustees may promote the purpose to which I pro-
pose to devote this department of .the Institute.
They will make all such regulations, as in their
judgment, are most likely to render the Academy
of Music, the instrument of permanent good to
the society of this city. As it will necessarily incur
considerable expense for its support, I desire that
it may be, in part, sustained by such charges for
admission to its privileges, as the Trustees may
consider proper, and at the same time compatible
with my design, to render it useful to the commu-
nity; and I suggest for their consideration the
propriety of regulating the conditions of an an-
nual membership of the Academy; as well as the
terms of occasional admission to the saloon, if they
should consider it expedient at any time to extend
the privilege of admission beyond the number of
those who may be enrolled as members.
Fourth. I contemplate with great satisfaction,
as an auxiliary to the improvement of the taste
and, through it, the moral elevation of the char-
acter of the society of Baltimore, the establish-
ment of a gallery of art in the department of
Painting and Statuary. It is, therefore, my wish
that such a gallery should be included in the plan
of the Institute and that spacious and appropriate
provision be made for it. It should be supplied to
such an extent as may be practicable, with the
works of the best masters, and be placed under
such regulations as shall secure free access to it
during stated periods of every year, by all order-
ly and respectable persons who may take an in-
terest in works of this kind; and particularly that
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