BULLETIN 



OF THE 



I1TSTITTJTE. 



VOL. 6. SALEM, MASS., AUGUST, 1874. No. 8. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1874. 



MEETING this evening at 8 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. Records read. 



The committee appointed to consider the propriety of 

 commemorating the centennial anniversary of the meeting 

 of the Provincial Congress in Salem, Oct. 5, 1774, re- 

 ported : 



That they deem it proper and advisable to notice the 

 event by an historical address, to be delivered on that 

 day before the society. 



Voted, That ABNER C. GOODELL, Jr., Esq., be invited 

 to prepare and deliver the address. 



After a discussion on this subject participated in by 

 Messrs. E. B. Willson, C. Cooke, F. W. Putnam, W. P. 

 Upham and others, it was 



Voted, That the President be requested to appoint a 

 committee of arrangements on the celebration. 



Philip G. Skinner was elected a member. 

 ESSEX INST. BULLETIN. vi 11 



