CONSTITUTION. 



ART. I. The Society shall be culled The Essex Historical Society 

 and shall consist of resident and honorary members, the former of 

 whom shall be persons residing within the county of Essex. 



ART. II. The object of the society shall br, to procure and pre- 

 serve whatever relates to the topography, antiquities, and natural, 

 civil and ecclesiastical history of the county of Essex. 



ART. III. The officers of the society shall be a president, a vice 

 president, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a 

 treasurer, a librarian and cabinet-keeper, and nine trustees, of which 

 the president and vice president shall ex officio be two ; and all the 

 officers shall be chosen by ballot, at the annual meeting of the socie- 

 ty, on the sixth day of September. 



ART. IV. It shall be the duty of the trustees to receive dona- 

 tions, and to manage and superintend all the concerns of the socie- 

 ty ; they shall hold meetings as often as occasion shall require, and 

 at the animal meeting on the sixth day of September they shall 

 make a report in writing of the transactions of the preceding year. 



AKT. V. Four meetings of the society shall be held at Salem in 

 every year; the first meeting, at which the officers shall be chosen, 

 shall be on the sixth day of September, being the day of the land- 

 ing of Gov Endicott at Salem, A. U. 1C28; provided liowevr r, that 

 when that day shall happen on Sunday, the meeting shall be liolclen 

 on the Tuesday following; the other meetings on the first Tues- 

 days of December, March and June; and special meetings may be 

 called at the same place by the president, or in his absence the vice 

 president, on the application of the trustees, by publishing a no- 

 tification in some newspaper printed in Salem. The President, and 

 in his absence the vice president, shall preside at all meetings. 



ART. VI. Each resident member shall, upon his admission, pay 

 the sum of ten dollars. 



ART. VII. The members of the society shall be chosen by ballot, 

 at a stated meeting of the society; but no person shall be admitted 

 as a member, unless he has been nominated at some stated meeting 

 preceding that at which the vote shall be taken for his admission. 



ART. VIII. Five members shall be a quorum for holding any 

 meeting. 



The following circular was distributed among the friends of the 

 society. 



The object of the Essex Historical Society is, as stated in the 2d 

 article of the constitution," to procure and preserve whatever re- 

 lates to the topography, antiquities, and natural, civil and ecclesias- 

 tical history, of the county of Essex." Members of tin; society, and 

 other persons who feel a desire to promote these interesting and 

 important purposes, will gratify the society by aiding in obtaining 

 collections, for its use, of the following : 



1. Topographical sketches of the towns and parishes where they 

 reside, or with which they are particularly acquainted ; including an 

 account of the soil, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, remarka- 

 ble buildings, natural, curiosities and statistics of such places. 



