Section 2. Said Corporation May Hold Real and Personal Estate to an Amount

not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 18, 1874.

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NOTE.--The Prince Society was organized on the 25th of May, 1858. What was undertaken as an experiment has proved successful. This ACT OF INCORPORATION has been obtained to enable the Society better to fulfil its object, in its expanding growth.

THE PRINCE SOCIETY.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.--This Society Shall be called THE PRINCE SOCIETY; and it Shall have for its object the publication of rare works, in print or manuscript, relating to America.

ARTICLE II--The officers of the Society shall be a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer; who together shall form the Council of the Society.

ARTICLE III.--Members may be added to the Society on the recommendation of any member and a confirmatory vote of a majority of the Council.

Libraries and other Institutions may hold membership, and be represented by an authorized agent.

All members shall be entitled to and shall accept the volumes printed by the Society, as they are issued from time to time, at the prices fixed by the Council; and membership shall be forfeited by a refusal or neglect to accept the said volumes.

Any person may terminate his membership by resignation addressed in writing to the President; provided, however, that he shall have previously paid for all volumes issued by the Society after the date of his election as a member.

ARTICLE IV.--The management of the Society's affairs shall be vested in the Council, which shall keep a faithful record of its proceedings, and report the same to the Society annually, at its General Meeting in May.

ARTICLE V.--On the anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Thomas Prince,--namely, on the twenty-fifth day of May, in every year (but if this day shall fall on Sunday or a legal holiday, on the following day),--a General Meeting shall be held at Boston, in Massachusetts, for the purpose of electing officers, hearing the report of the Council, auditing the Treasurer's account, and transacting other business.

ARTICLE VI.--The officers shall be chosen by the Society annually, at the General Meeting; but vacancies occurring between the General Meetings may be filled by the Council.

ARTICLE VII.--By-Laws for the more particular government of the Society may be made or amended at any General Meeting.

ARTICLE VIII.--Amendments to the Constitution may be made at the General Meeting in May, by a three-fourths vote, provided that a copy of the same be transmitted to every member of the Society, at least two weeks previous to the time of voting thereon.

COUNCIL.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

1. The Society shall be administered on the mutual principle, and solely in the interest of American history.

2. A volume shall be issued as often as practicable, but not more frequently than once a year.

3. An editor of each work to be issued shall be appointed, who shall be a member of the Society, whose duty it shall be to prepare, arrange, and conduct the same through the press; and, as he will necessarily be placed under obligations to scholars and others for assistance, and particularly for the loan of rare books, he shall be entitled to receive ten copies, to enable him to acknowledge and return any courtesies which he may have received.

4. All editorial work and official service shall be performed gratuitously.

5. All contracts connected with the publication of any work shall be laid before the Council in distinct specifications in writing, and be adopted by a vote of the Council, and entered in a book kept for that purpose; and, when the publication of a volume is completed, its whole expense shall be entered, with the items of its cost in full, in the same book. No member of the Council shall be a contractor for doing any part of the mechanical work of the publications.

6. The price of each volume shall be a hundredth part of the cost of the edition, or as near to that as conveniently may be; and there shall be no other assessments levied upon the members of the Society.

7. A sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars, may be set apart by the Council from the net receipts for publications, as a working capital; and when the said net receipts shall exceed that sum, the excess shall be divided, from time to time, among the members of the Society, by remitting either a part or the whole cost of a volume, as may be deemed expedient.

8. All moneys belonging to the Society shall be deposited in the New England Trust Company in Boston, unless some other banking institution shall be designated by a vote of the Council; and said moneys shall be entered in the name of the Society, subject to the order of the Treasurer.

9. It shall be the duty of the President to call the Council together, whenever it may be necessary for the transaction of business, and to preside at its meetings.

10. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Presidents to authorize all bills before their payment, to make an inventory of the property of the Society during the month preceding the annual meeting and to report the same to the Council, and to audit the accounts of the Treasurer.

11. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to issue all general notices to the members, and to conduct the general correspondence of the Society.

12. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a complete record of the proceedings both of the Society and of the Council, in a book provided for that purpose.

13. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to forward to the members bills for the volumes, as they are issued; to superintend the sending of the books; to pay all bills authorized and indorsed by at leaft two Vice-Presidents of the Society; and to keep an accurate account of all moneys received and disbursed.

14. No books shall be forwarded by the Treasurer to any member until the amount of the price fixed for the same shall have been received; and any member neglecting to forward the said amount for one month after his notification, shall forfeit his membership.

OFFICERS OF THE PRINCE SOCIETY.

President.

THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. BOSTON, MASS.

Vice-Presidents.

JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M. BOSTON, MASS. WILLIAM B. TRASK, ESQ. BOSTON, MASS. THE HON. CHARLES H. BELL, A.M. EXETER, N. H. JOHN MARSHALL BROWN, A.M. PORTLAND, ME.

Corresponding Secretary.

CHARLES W. TUTTLE, Ph.D. BOSTON, MASS.

Recording Secretary.

DAVID GREENE HASKINS, JR., A.M. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Treasurer.

ELBRIDGE H. GOSS, ESQ. BOSTON, MASS.

THE PRINCE SOCIETY.

1880.

The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. Boston, Mass. Samuel Agnew, Esq. Philadelphia, Pa. Thomas Coffin Amory, A.M. Boston, Mass. William Sumner Appleton, A.M. Boston, Mass. Walter T. Avery, Esq. New York, N.Y. George L. Balcom, Esq. Claremont, N.H. Samuel L. M. Barlow, Esq. New York, N Y. The Hon. Charles H. Bell, A.M. Exeter, N.H. John J. Bell, A.M. Exeter, N.H. Samuel Lane Boardman, Esq. Boston, Mass. The Hon. James Ware Bradbury, LL.D. Augusta, Me. J. Carson Brevoort, LL.D. Brooklyn, N.Y. Sidney Brooks, A.M. Boston, Mass. Mrs. John Carter Brown. Providence, R.I. John Marshall Brown, A.M. Portland, Me. Joseph O. Brown, Esq. New York, N.Y. Philip Henry Brown, A.M. Portland, Me. Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, Esq. Boston, Mass. George Bement Butler, Esq. New York, N.Y. The Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, A.M. Chelsea, Mass. William Eaton Chandler, A.M. Concord, N.H. George Bigelow Chase, A.M. Concord, Mass. Clarence H. Clark, Esq. Philadelphia, Pa. Gen. John S. Clark, Auburn, N.Y. Ethan N. Coburn, Esq. Charlestown, Mass. Jeremiah Colburn, A.M. Boston, Mass. Joseph J. Cooke, Esq. Providence, R.I. Deloraine P. Corey, Esq. Boston, Mass. Erastus Corning, Esq. Albany, N.Y. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Esq. Worcester, Mass. Abram E. Cutter, Esq. Charlestown, Mass. The Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple, S.T.D. Baltimore, Md. William M. Darlington, Esq. Pittsburg, Pa. John Ward Dean, A.M. Boston, Mass. Charles Deane, LL.D. Cambridge, Mass. Edward Denham, Esq. New Bedford, Mass. Prof. Franklin B. Dexter, A.M. New Haven, Ct. The Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D. Boston, Mass. Samuel Adams Drake, Esq. Melrose, Mass. Henry Thayer Drowne, Esq. New York, N.Y. Henry H. Edes, Esq. Charlestown, Mass. Jonathan Edwards, A.B., M.D. New Haven, Ct. Janus G. Elder, Esq. Lewiston, Me., Samuel Eliot, LL.D. Boston, Mass. Alfred Langdon Elwyn, M.D. Philadelphia, Pa. James Emott, Esq. New York, N.Y. The Hon. William M. Evarts, LL.D. New York, N.Y. Joseph Story Fay, Esq. Woods Holl, Mass. John S. H. Fogg, M.D. Boston, Mass. The Rev. Henry W. Foote, A.M. Boston, Mass. Samuel P. Fowler, Esq. Danvers, Mass. James E. Gale, Esq. Haverhill, Mass. Marcus D. Gilman, Esq. Montpelier, Vt. The Hon. John E. Godfrey Bangor, Me. Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M. Salem, Mass. Elbridge H. Goss, Esq. Boston, Mass. The Hon. Chief Justice Horace Gray, L.L.D. Boston, Mass. William W. Greenough, A.B. Boston, Mass. Isaac J. Greenwood, A.M. New York, N.Y. Charles H. Guild, Esq. Somerville, Mass. The Hon. Robert S. Hale, LL.D. Elizabethtown, N.Y. C. Fiske Harris, A.M. Providence, R.I. David Greene Haskins, Jr., A.M. Cambridge, Mass. The Hon. Francis B. Hayes, A.M. Boston, Mass. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A.M. Cambridge, Mass. W. Scott Hill, M.D. Augusta, Me. James F. Hunnewell, Esq. Charlestown, Mass. Theodore Irwin, Esq. Oswego, N.Y. The Hon. Clark Jillson Worcester, Mass. Mr. Sawyer Junior Nashua, N.H. George Lamb, Esq. Boston, Mass. Edward F. de Lancey, Esq. New York, N.Y. William B. Lapham, M.D. Augusta, Me. Henry Lee, A.M. Boston, Mass. John A. Lewis, Esq. Boston, Mass. Orsamus H. Marshall, Esq. Buffalo, N.Y. William T. R. Marvin, A.M. Boston, Mass. William F. Matchett, Esq. Boston, Mass. Frederic W. G. May, Esq. Boston, Mass. The Rev. James H. Means, D.D. Boston, Mass. George H. Moore, LL.D. New York, N.Y. The Hon. Henry C. Murphy, LL.D. Brooklyn, N.Y. The Rev. James De Normandie, A.M. Portsmouth, N.H. The Hon. James W. North. Augusta, Me. Prof. Charles E. Norton, A.M. Cambridge, Mass. John H. Osborne, Esq. Auburn, N.Y. George T. Paine, Esq. Providence, R.I. The Hon. John Gorham Palfrey, LL.D. Cambridge, Mass. Daniel Parish, Jr., Esq. New York, N. Y. Francis Parkman, LL.D. Boston, Mass. Augustus T. Perkins, A.M. Boston, Mass. The Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, D.D., LL.D. Davenport, Iowa. William Frederic Poole, A.M. Chicago, Ill. George Prince, Esq. Bath, Me. Capt. William Prince, U.S.A. New Orleans, La. Samuel S. Purple, M.D. New York, N.Y. The Hon. John Phelps Futnam, A.M. Boston, Mass. Edward Ashton Rollins, A.M. Philadelphia, Pa. The Hon. Mark Skinner Chicago, Ill. The Rev. Carlos Slafter, A.M. Dedham, Mass. The Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. Boston, Mass. Charles C. Smith, Esq. Boston, Mass. Samuel T. Snow, Esq. Boston, Mass. Oliver Bliss Stebbins, Esq. Boston, Mass. George Stevens, Esq. Lowell, Mass. The Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton. New York, N.Y. William B. Trask, Esq. Boston, Mass. The Hon. William H. Tuthill. Tipton, Iowa. Charles W. Tuttle, Ph.D. Boston, Mass. The Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, D.D. Pomfret, Ct. Joseph B. Walker, A.M. Concord, N.H. William Henry Wardwell, Esq. Boston, Mass. Miss Rachel Wetherill Philadelphia, Pa. Henry Wheatland, A.M., M.D. Salem, Mass. John Gardner White, A.M. Cambridge, Mass. William Adee Whitehead, A.M. Newark, N.J. William H. Whitmore, A.M. Boston, Mass. Henry Austin Whitney, A.M. Boston, Mass. The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Ph.D. Boston, Mass. Henry Winsor, Esq. Philadelphia, Pa. The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D. Boston, Mass. Charles Levi Woodbury, Esq. Boston, Mass. Ashbel Woodward, M.D. Franklin, Ct. J. Otis Woodward, Esq. Albany, N.Y.

LIBRARIES.

American Antiquarian Society Worcester, Mass. Amherst College Library Amherst, Mass. Astor Library New York, N.Y. Boston Athenaeum Boston, Mass. Boston Library Society Boston, Mass. British Museum London, Eng. Concord Public Library Concord, Mass. Eben Dale Sutton Reference Library Peabody, Mass. Free Public Library Worcester, Mass. Grosvenor Library Buffalo, N.Y. Harvard College Library Cambridge, Mass. Historical Society of Pennfylvania Philadelphia, Pa. Library Company of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. Library of Parliament Ottawa, Canada. Library of the State Department Washington, D.C. Long Island Historical Society Brooklyn, N.Y. Maine Historical Society Brunswick, Me. Maryland Historical Society Baltimore, Md. Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, Mass. Mercantile Library New York, N.Y. Minnesota Historical Society St. Paul, Minn. Newburyport Public Library, Peabody Fund Newburyport, Mass. New England Historic Genealogical Society Boston, Mass. Newton Free Library Newton, Mass. New York Society Library New York, N.Y. Plymouth Public Library Plymouth, Mass. Portsmouth Athenaeum Portsmouth, N.H. Public Library of the City of Boston Boston, Mass. Redwood Library Newport, R.I. State Library of Massachusetts Boston, Mass. State Library of New York Albany, N.Y. State Library of Rhode Island Providence, R.I. State Library of Vermont Montpelier, Vt. Williams College Library Williamstown, Mass. Yale College Library New Haven, Ct.