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tions, but not one lias succeeded in gathering together all its 

 laws, but now, with the use of the volume which Mr. Fisher 

 Avith intelligent discrimination rescued from oblivion or worse, 

 and which the American Philosophical Society has so carefully 

 preserved, Pennsylvania will be the only American Common- 

 wealth that is able to present to the world an unbroken series 

 of its own laws. 



The following resolution was then adopted : 



That permission be given to tlie Commission for the Compilation of 

 the Laws of Pennsylvania prior to 1800, to refer to and to copy, if they 

 so desire, the MS. volume of original laws of Pennsylvania from 16<S3 to 

 1700, presented to this Society in 1835, by Joshua Francis Fisher, Esq., 

 under such regulations as the Library Committee may prescribe. 



Prof. Robert W. Rogers, of Drew Theological Seminary, 

 Madison, N. J., and Prof. Morris Jastrow were appointed 

 delegates to the Congress of Orientalists to be held at Paris 

 this summer. 



The Society was then adjourned by the presiding officer. 



Special Meeting^ A2)nl S3, 1897. 



President Fraley in the (3hair. 



Present, 20 members. 



Dr. Morris read a paper on " The Relation of the Dode- 

 cahedron found near Marietta, 0., to Shamanism," Avhich 

 was discussed by Mr. Cushing. 



Dr. Harrison Allen laid before the Society a chart of Aus- 

 tralian rock carvings, by R. H. Matthews. 



The Society was then adjourned by the President. 



