^ MINUTES. f Jan. 15, 



Councilors. 



George E. Morehouse, William C. Cattcll, William P. Tat- 



ham, Patterson DiiBois. 



Mr. Ingham proposed an amendment to the LaAVS to be 

 considered at the next meeting. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



Stated Meeting^ January 15^ 1897. 



Vice-President, Dr. Pepper, in the Chair. 



Present, 36 members. 



The nsual correspondence was submitted with the letters of 

 envoy and of acknowledgment. 



Accessions to the Library were reported. 



The following Eeport was read on the part of the Henry M. 

 Phillips Prize Essay Fund Committee : 



The Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay Fund Committee respectfully re- 

 port, that they have found discrepancies existing between the published 

 minutes of the Society of December 7 and 21, 1888, establishing the 

 "Rules and Regulations" in reference to the Henry M. Phillips Prize 

 Essay Fund, and other copies of the same printed in authorized form 

 by the Society, one of these discrepancies presenting a serious embarrass- 

 ment and hindrance to the ett'ective administration of the Fund. They 

 also find that an incorrect copy of said Rules and Regulations has been 

 improperly included amongst the Laws of the Society in certain pam- 

 phlets called "Laws and Regulations of the Society," printed in 1890 

 and 1894. 



They therefore recommend that the Society adopt the following reso- 

 lutions ; 



1. Resolved, That the Rules and Regulations adopted for the manage- 

 ment of the Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay Fund as set forth in the cir- 

 cular officially issued by the Committee May 1, 1893, and published in 

 No. 148, Proceedings of the Society, Jul}^ 1895, pages 174 and 175, are 

 hereby established and adopted, viz. : 



First. The Prize Endowment Fund shall be called the "Henry M. 

 Phillips Prize Essay Fund." 



Second. The money constituting the Endowment Fund, viz., five 

 thousand dollars, shall be invested by the Society in such securities as 



