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the property of the Soeiety. Your Committee recommeud the 

 passage of the enclosed Vole, iiud beg to be discharged. 



C. S. Sau<;ent, ") 



C. M. HovEY, > Committee. 



F. L. Ames. ) 



The Vote, recommended by tlie Committee, is as follows : 



Voted, Tliat the President of the Society be requested to peti- 

 tion His Honor the Mayor of Boston, for authority to build, under 

 conditions to be arranged hereafter, a building at some point on 

 Boylston Street in the Public Garden, for the uses of the So- 

 ciety. 



The Report was accepted and the Committee discharged, and 

 the Vote was adopted. 



The following named persons, having been recommended for 

 election as members of the Society, were, on ballot, duly elected : 



Edwin H. Jose, of Cambridgeport. 

 Aaron Low, of Essex. 

 Dr. OiiKEN S. Sandeus, of Boston. 

 Augustus Andrews, of Dorchester. 



Adjourned to Saturday, December 11." 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 11, 1886. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holdcn at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, IIenhy P. VValcott, in the chair. 



On motion of P^dward L. Beard it was voted that the considera- 

 tion of the Schedule of Prizes for 1887 be fust in order. The 

 Committee on Esta])lishii)g Prizes reported the Schedule, amended 

 in accordance with the instructions given on the 4th instant. The 

 subject was fully discussed by Mr. Beard, the President, William 

 J. Stewart, William C. Strong, Jose[)h II. Woodford, C. ]\l. Ilovey, 

 andE. W. Wood, and the Schedule thus amended was then referred 

 back to the Executive Committee for a[)proval, agreeably to the 

 Constitution and B^-laws. 



