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was due to difficulties between Stuart and Revett, Stuart and
and that the Society decided in favour of the Revett-
former; for at a committee held on April 21, 1782,
it was

c ResolVd That it is the opinion of this Committee that a Sum
not exceeding ^xoo be granted to Mr. Revett as a full compensation
for all his Claims upon the Society including his payment for
finishing Drawings by order of the Society and for work done upon
and paid for an unfinished plate.

' On condition that he gives up to the Society as there property
all Memorandums, Scetches and other Private Remarks taken by
him during the voyage to Greece and Asia Minor which he made
under the Patronage of the said Soc.'

' That whereas the Learned Judge Potter by his hereditary
Knowledge of Grecian Antiquities and that he has acquired of the
Laws of his Country is amply able to prepare a proper acquitance
to Rivett the said Mr. Rivett to the Performance of his part of
this Contract he be requested by the Society to produce a Draught
of the said acquittance at their next Meeting.'

1 That whereas the Secretary has receiv'd information that the
Plates of the Ionian Antiquities Formerly publish'd by this Society
were in the Possession of the Late Ld. Le Despencer at the time
of his Death the Secretary be empower'd to apply to the executors of
the said Late Ld. Le Despencer for the said Plates the Property
of the said Soc. and empower'd to receive the same.'

' That all the Drawings and Plans of the Propylaea and all
others of Fragments of Antiquities in the Acropolis belonging to
this Society be lent to Mr. Stuart for the space of one year in order
for their publication in the second volume of the Antiquities of
Athens.'

These recommendations of the committee were
ratified by the Society with the further proviso,
evidently passed in the hope of hastening matters,

1 The said Mr. Stuart agreeing to return the same into the hands
of the Secretary within twelve months from the Day when they
shall be deliverd to him and to publish engravings of each and
every one of them in the second vol. of his Work entitled Anti-
quities of Athens within eighteen months from the said day on
which they shall be delivered by hand or present to the Society
finishd proofs of all of them under the Penalty of ao guineas
to be paid by him the said Mr. Stuart and applied to the General
Fund.'

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