Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay. 



Philadelphia, 104 South Fifth Street, 



April 5, 1897. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY held at 

 Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge has the honor 

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

 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 subject 

 upon which essays are to be furnished by competitors is : 



The devalopmsni of the law, as illustrated by the 

 decisions relating to the police power of the State. 



The €3say shall not contain more than one hundred thousand 

 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 dollars 

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

 after the award. The Society invites attention to the regulations 

 governing said prize, which accompany this circular. 



William V. McKean, Craig Biddle, Mayer Sulzberger, 

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

 President 0/ the Society, Horace J ayne, M.D.,^ Treasurer 

 of the Society, Committee on the Henry M. Phillips Prize 

 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. Sergeant 

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



RKOUIvATIONS. 



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

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

 it shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing within, the proper name of 

 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 essays 

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

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

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



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

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

 translation of the same. 



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

 already ptiblished or printed, or for which the author has received already any prize, 

 profit, or honor, of any nature whatsoever. 



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

 paper only. 



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

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



