The Nominating Committee having reported that they had agreed upon the same Board of Officers for the coming year on motion of Mr. Stilphen it was

Voted, That Mr. Burnham cast the vote for the present Board of Officers and having done so the following were declared elected :For President, James P. Baxter.

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Vice-President, Rufus K. Sewall.
Treasurer, Fritz H. Jordan.

Corresponding Secretary and Biographer, Joseph Williamson.
Recording Secretary, Librarian and Curator, Hubbard W.

Bryant.

Standing Committee, Rev. Henry S. Burrage, of Portland, Professor Henry L. Chapman, of Brunswick, John Marshall Brown, of Falmouth, Edward P. Burnham, of Saco, Samuel C. Belcher, of Farmington, Henry Ingalls, of Wiscasset, Charles E. Nash, of Augusta.

The following candidates for resident membership having been duly nominated in advance of the Annual Meeting, were balloted for and unanimously elected :— Frank W. Hovey, of Pittsfield.

John Owen Patten, of Bath.

Herbert Payson, of Portland.

The following were elected Corresponding Members:

Robert Hallowell Gardiner, of Boston.

Benjamin Vaughan, of Cambridge.
Robert C. Winthrop, Junior, of Boston.
Henry Youle Hind, of Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Robert Goldthwaite Carter, of Washington.

On motion of Professor Chapman it was

Voted, That it is the sense of this meeting that any expense attending the arranging and cataloguing of the pamphlets belonging to the Society meets with the approbation of the Society.

Professor Chapman also gave notice of the following proposed amendment to the By-Laws, to come up for action at the next Annual Meeting:

NOTICE OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

To amend Section 4 of the By-Laws by inserting before the words

may be elected" etc., the clause "or who have been resident members for a period of not less than thirty years:

whole section shall read as follows:

so that the

Persons, whether residents of the state or not, who shall have attained an eminent distinction in history or kindred subjects, or shall have done eminent service in promoting the objects of this Society, or who have been resident members for a period of not less than thirty years, may be elected honorary members with the rights and privileges of corresponding members."

On motion of Mr. Burnham, it was

Voted, That the next Annual Meeting be called at 2 P. M. on the date to be fixed by the Standing Committee.

Adjourned.

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