ABSTRACT FROM THE JUNTO MINUTE BOOK. 103 



they chanced to be in town on the night of meeting. 

 At most they were only to be considered as honorary 

 members, who, upon removing to town, signing and 

 conforming to the Rules of the Society then in 

 force, should, without any ballot or new change, be 

 admitted as members. So that the whole is reduced 

 to Edmund Physick, Charles Thomson, Isaac Pa- 

 schall, Joshua Howell, and William Hopkins (if he 

 chooses to attend), and the two in England, whose 

 return, being uncertain, ought not to interrupt the 

 measures necessary to be taken for preserving the 

 Society in being. This difficulty being thus got over, 

 and the members present well satisfyed of their power, 

 the Laws were read over, and after some alterations 

 to make them more conformable to the original Eules 

 and Bye-Laws, they were ordered to be entered in 

 the book, and are as follow: ' 



[Here follow the Eules with this heading.] 



"Rules of a Society meeting weekly in the city of 

 Philadelphia for their Mutual Improvement in Use- 

 ful Knowledge." 



"1. That this Society, called The Junto, meet every 

 Friday evening " etc. 



6. The elections must be unanimous. The new mem- 

 ber introduced and qualified thus: 



"Standing up and laying his right hand upon his 

 breast, he shall be asked the following questions : 



"1. Have you any objection or any personal dislike 

 to any member of this Society? 



