AMEKICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 25 



May, when it appears that Owen Biddle and Isaac 

 Paschall had been appointed a Committee to revise 

 the Laws and make a few alterations in them. 



On this day they made their report, and produced 

 the Laws as altered by them; it was agreed that they 

 should be taken into consideration at the next meet- 

 ing, which was on the 30th, when those Laws with a 

 few further alterations were adopted, and ordered 

 to be fairly copied in the Book of the Minutes. 



They were in fact fairly copied on some pages, 

 which, it seems, were left blank for that purpose at 

 the beginning of the Book. They do not differ sub- 

 stantially from those adopted in 1761, said to be 

 the original Eules drafted by Franklin re-written 

 from the recollection of the members. They are en- 

 titled " Eules of a Society meeting weekly in the City 

 of Philadelphia, for their mutual improvement in 

 useful knowledge." The objects of the Association, 

 its exercises, its internal organization are the same 

 as in the Eules proposed to be amended. Even the 

 four qualifications are not forgotten, but are inserted 

 at full length ; the only thing that is remarkable, is the 

 new name which the Junto assumed, "The Amer- 

 ican Society for promoting and propagating useful 

 knowledge held in Philadelphia,' 7 which appears to 

 have been filled up after the rules had been copied in 

 the Minute Book as above mentioned and apparently 

 in a different hand, and that name was not agreed 

 upon until the 13th of December, more than six 



