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62. Muskrat Lake.

63. This number is wanting on the map. Muscrat Lake is one of this succession of lakes, which extends easterly towards the Ottawa.

64. Allumette Island, in the River Ottawa, about eighty-five miles above the capital of the Dominion of Canada.

65. That part of the River Ottawa which, after its bifurcation, sweeps around and forms the northern boundary of Allumette Island.

66. The Ottawa beyond its junction with the Matawan.

67. French River.

68. _Vide antea_, note 83, p. 130.

69. Plainly Lake St. Louis, now the Ontario, and not the Falls of St Louis.

The reference is here to Niagara Falls.

70. The River Rideau.

71. The River Trent discharges into the Bay of Quinte, an arm of Lake Ontario or Lac St Louis.

72. On the borders of Lake Ontario in the State of New York.

73. The head-waters of the Bay of Fundy.

74. The River Ottawa, here referred to, extends nearly to Lake Nip.i.s.sing, here spoken of as the lake of the _Bissereni_.

75. The Canada blueberry, Vaccanium Canadense. The aborigines of New England were accustomed to dry the blueberry for winter's use. _Vide Josselyn's Rarities_, Tuckerman's ed., Boston, 1865, p. 113.

76. This reference is to the Antouoronons, as given on the map.

THE PRINCE SOCIETY.

[Seal Inscription: In Memory of Thomas Prince]

COMMONWEALTH OF Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCE SOCIETY.

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court a.s.sembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows_:

SECTION I. John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, and Charles W. Tuttle, their a.s.sociates and successors, are made a corporation by the name of the PRINCE SOCIETY, for the purpose of preserving and extending the knowledge of American History, by editing and printing such ma.n.u.scripts, rare tracts, and volumes as are mostly confined in their use to historical students and public libraries.

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 pa.s.sage.

Approved March 18, 1874.

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.

CONSt.i.tUTION.

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 ma.n.u.script, 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 Inst.i.tutions may hold members.h.i.+p, and be represented by an authorized agent.

All members shall be ent.i.tled 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 members.h.i.+p shall be forfeited by a refusal or neglect to accept the said volumes.

Any person may terminate his members.h.i.+p 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 Ma.s.sachusetts, 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 Const.i.tution 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 a.s.sistance, and particularly for the loan of rare books, he shall be ent.i.tled to receive ten copies, to enable him to acknowledge and return any courtesies which he may have received.

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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.