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shall have perfected the plans and specifications for the same and have 

 had a contract prepared for the execution thereof, the President and Treas- 

 urer of the Society shall be and are hereby authorized to execute such 

 contract under the corporate seal of the Society. 



Resolved, 2. That said Committee, in conjunction with the Curators and 

 the Committee on the Hall, be authorized to rent a suitable place or 

 places to which to remove the Library, Portraits and other Collections 

 and to have such removals effected in such manner as will secure the 

 property from injury, and to continue the insurance thereon against 

 loss by fire, and also to rent a suitable room in which the Secretary and 

 , Librarian can transact the business of the Society until the Hall can be 

 reoccupied. 



Resolved, 3. That the Treasurer be authorized to make payments upon 

 the contracts for the alterations and improvements and of other expenses 

 incident to the removal. 



Resolved, 4. That the Librarian of the Society be added to the aforesaid 

 Committee as a member thereof. 



The following resolutions, offered on behalf of the Trustees 

 #f the Building Fund, were adopted : 



WHEREAS, The American Philosophical Society, at a -meeting held on 

 October 5, 1866, did adopt a preamble and resolution setting forth that 

 it was " expedient for the security of the books and property of the So- 

 ciety there should be erected a fire-proof building," and did thereby also 

 provide for the appointment of Trustees of and the raising of money for a 

 Building Fund and to "continue to invest and reinvest all principal, in- 

 terest and income of said fund until this Society shall determine to build 

 for itself a fire proof building, and make commencement thereof, and 

 then to pay to the Treasurer of the Society out of the proceeds of such in- 

 vestments such sums as the Society shall from time to time direct to be 

 paid to him for that purpose." 



AND WHEREAS, The Society, on April 25, 1890, after having had 

 plans for the alteration of their Hall submitted to them, authorized and 

 empowered their Committee on Extended Accommodations to enter into 

 negotiation for alteration of their present building in accordance with the 

 plans then presented, or such modifications of them as might be suggested 

 by the Committee or its architect. 



AND WHEREAS, The said plans have been so modified by the Commit- 

 tee as to make said Hall a fire-proof building ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the Trustees of the Building Fund of the American 

 Philosophical Society be directed to pay to the Treasurer of the Society 



