tions, as the Society may order, or the President with the Standing Committee between the meetings of the Society may think proper to direct.

5th. The Treasurer, if required by the Society, shall give security for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in him, and shall keep regular accounts of the monies received and paid, obferving always to pay no money without an order figned by the President, or a majority of a quorum of the Standing Committee, who are prohibited from drawing, between the stated meetings of the Society, for a larger fum than ten pounds, unless especially empowered by the Society at a previous meeting.

6th. If any of the officers above named shall refign or be displaced, the Society fhall fill the vacancy in the mode prescribed by the first article; and if the Prefident and Vice President, or Secretary, or Treasurer, be absent at any of the meetings, the Society may elect one to officiate pro tempore.

7th. The Society fhall meet once in every quarter, that is to fay, on the 3d. fixth day in the 2d, 5th, 8th, and 11th months in every year, at such place as shall from time to time be agreed upon, in order to receive the reports of the Standing Committee, and devise the ways and means of accomplishing the objects of this inftitution.

8th. That nine members, with a President or VicePrefident, conftitutionally affembled, be a quorum of the Society for tranfacting business.

9th. Every member after fubfcribing these rules shall pay into the hands of the Treasurer two-thirds of a dollar, and at the commencement of every quarter one-fixth of a dollar; and all donations to the Society fhall be made through the President, who fhall pay

them to the Treasurer, and report them to the Society at the next quarterly-meeting.

10th. Any citizen of the United States, who shall be recommended by two-thirds of the Standing Committee to a quarterly-meeting, fhall be balloted for, and if approved by two-thirds of the members present, he fhall be declared a member. The Committee of seven shall have Authority to receive such members as may offer and fubfcribe before the next quarterlymeeting, this rule notwithstanding.

11th. Two thirds of the members present at a quarterly meeting shall have power to expel any person whom they may deem unworthy of remaining a member, and no perfon fhall be a member who holds a flave, or is concerned in the flave-trade.

12th. It shall be the business of the Counsellors to explain the laws and constitution of the States, which relate to the emancipation of flaves, and to the flavetrade. And, when it becomes neceffary, to urge the due execution thereof, and their claims to freedom, before fuch perfons or Courts as are or may be authorized to decide on the fame.

13th. A Standing Committee of feven members fhall be appointed to transact the business in general, four of whom are empowered to act; whofe duty it fhall be to take the most effectual measures to accomplish the objects of this inftitution agreeable to the direction and at the expence of the Society, and to report a particular account of their proceedings at the next quarterly-meeting, at which time two of their number shall be released from the fervice in the order their names ftand on the minutes, and the vacancy filled up by the fame or two others appointed in their room, and in like manner a difmiffion and appoint

ment of two shall take place at each fucceeding quarterly-meeting.

14th. The foregoing Rules fhall be in force without alteration fix months, after which period they shall be subject to fuch alterations as two-thirds of the members present, at a quarterly-meeting, shall agree upon.

XVII. WILL OF THOMAS HAZARD SON OF Robert. (Written in his own hand on two sides of a large quarto sheet of paper.)

BE IT REMEMBRED this Nineteenth day of the Twelfth Month in the Year of our LORD one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three that I Thomas Hazard of South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island &c. Yeoman being of a Sound disposing mind and memory and in a pretty good State of health for which and all Other favours I desire to be very thankfull, and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is Appointed once for man to die do in the fear of GoD make and Ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament that is to say first I will that all those Debts I do owe in Right to any persons with my funeral charges be well and truly content and paid in a convenient time after my decease by my Executrix hereafter Named out of my personal Estate and as touching Such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased GOD to bless me with in this life I give and Dispose of the Same manner and form following.

IMPRIMUS I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Elizabeth Hazard the use and improvment of the west end of my dwelling House that is to say Two Rooms above Stairs and the two rooms under them

and previledge to get Water out of the Well So long as She Shall Remain my Widow, I also give to her Two Cows and my great Bay mare so Called, and my Chafe with the previledge of its Standing in the Chafe House I also give her the keeping of the two Cows & horse or great bay Mare to go in the Chafe during the time She Remains my Widow I also give her my House hold furniture Except what I Shall otherwise mention and give away in this Will, I also give her my Silver Watch and the keeping of the three creatures the mare to be kept in the Stable in the Winter Seafon & the Cows to be kept well to hay, I also give to my said Wife One Hundred pounds Lawful money to be raised out of my perfonal Estate by my Executrix hereafter Named, all which gifts and Legacies to her are in Lieu of her Right of Dower and power of thirds of in and unto my Estate.

ITEM I give and Bequeath to my Beloved Son Robert Hazard and to his Heirs and Afsigns forever all that part of my homestead farm in South Kingstown which lyeth to the Eastward of the Country Rhode Containing about One Hundred and fifty Acres more or less together with my Rights on a Sedge Island so called said Lands being Bounded Westerly on the Country Rhode Northerly partly on Elisha Watfons Land and partly on Job Watsons Land. Easterly partly on Pettyquamscet River including my rights on a Sedge Island & partly on a Cove Southerly on Walter Watsons Land, I also give him one feather bed and furniture with all my Notes I have against him, and my Will is that he shall keep the Creatures as given to his Mother and Allow her the previledges as aforesaid out of what I have given him.

ITEM I give and Bequeath to my beloved Son

Thomas Hazard the Note I hold against him for five Hundred and Thirty Eight pounds, and one feather bed and furniture.

ITEM I give and Bequeath to my beloved Son Rowland Hazard and to his Heirs and Afsigns forever all my Lands lying in South Kingstown above the Country Rhode or to the Westward of said Rhode Containing about One hundred and fifty Acres more or Less With the Buildings thereon Standing the Same being Bounded Easterly on the Country Rhode Southerly partly on land lately belonging to John Case Deceased and partly on Jeremiah Niles's land Westerly on said Niles's Land Northerly partly on said Rowland Hazards Land and partly on Job Watsons Land I also give to my Son Rowland Hazard Two feather beds and furniture and all my Notes against him.

AND all the Remainder of my Lands and Real Estate where ever the Same may be I give to my Said Three Sons and to Their Heirs and Afsigns forever to be equally Divided among them I also give to my said three Sons Each of them Two Silver Table Spoons.

AND all the Remainder of my personal Estate I give to my aforesaid Wife and Three Sons to be Equally Divided among them.

And Lastly I hereby Nominate and appoint my Beloved Wife Elizabeth Hazard to be my whole and Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament Rattifying and Confirming this only to be my Last Will and Testament hereby Revoking and disannulling all former Wills & Executors by me heretofore made IN WITNESS and Confirmation Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day month and Year first Within Written.

THOMAS HAZARD.