Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay. 



Philadelphia, 104 South Fifth Street, 



April 5, 1897. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, held a 

 Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge has the hono 

 to announce that an award of the Henry M. Phillips Prize will b 

 made during the year 1899 '} essays for the same to be in the posses 

 sion of the Society before the first day of May, 1899. The sabjec 

 upon which essays are to be furnished by competitors is : 



The development of the law, as illustrated by the 

 decisions relating to the police power of the State. 



The essay shall not contain more than one hundred thousanc 

 words, excluding notes. Such notes, if any, should be kept sepa 

 rate as an Appendix. 



The Prize for the crowned essay will be two thousand dollar 

 lawful gold coin of the United States, to be paid as soon as may b 

 after the award. The Society invites attention to the regulation 

 governing said prize, which accompany this circular. 



• William V. McKeah, Craig Biddle, Mayer Sulzberger 

 C. Stuart Patterson, Joseph C. Fraley, Frederick Fraley 

 President of the Society, Horace Jayne, M. D.,* Treasure 

 of the Society, Committee on the Henry M. Fhil/ips Priz 

 Essay Fund. 



The essays must be sent, addressed to Frederick Fraley, 

 President of the American Philosophical 'Society, Philadelphia. 



* Elected Treasurer American Philosophical Society, January 7, 1898, in place of J. Sergear 

 Price, Esq., deceased, August 16, 1897, 



RE^QUIvATIONS. 



Competitors for the prize shall affix to their essays some motto or name (not th 

 proper name of the author, however), and when the essay is forwarded to the Societ 

 it shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing witliin the proper name c 

 the author, and, on the outside thereof, the motto or name adopted for the essay. 



At a stated meeting of the Society, in pursuance of the advertisement, all essaj 

 received up to that time shall be referred to a Committee of Judges, to consist of fiv 

 persons, who shall be selected by the Society from nomination of ten persons mad 

 by the Standing Committee on the Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay. Fund. 



Essays may be written in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish c 

 Latin, but, if in any language except. English, must be accompanied by an Englis 

 translation of the same. 



No treatise or essay shall be entitled to compete for the prize that has bee 

 already published or printed, or for vvhich the author has received already any priz( 

 profit, or honor of any nature whatsoever. 



All essays must be clearly and legibly written or printed on one side of th 

 paper only. 



The literary property of such essays shall be in their authors, subject to the righ 

 of the Society to publish tlie crowned essay in its Transactions or Proceedings. 



