OF THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 



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3rd. That the intended corporate name of the said Associa- 

 tion, is "The Hamilton Association. 



4th That the purposes or objects of the said Association, 

 are the formation of a Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, the 

 cultivation of Literature, Science and Art, and the illustration 

 of the Natural History and Physical Characteristics of the 

 Country. 



Annexed is a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the 

 said Association. 



In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed cur 

 names this. twenty-ninth day of December one thousand eight 

 hundred and eighty two. 



Signed in the presence of 



[signed,] 



KING BARTON. 



"J. D. Macdonald, Presidert 



B. E. Charlton, jst Vice-President. 



John A. Mullin, 2nd Vice-President. 



Geo. Dickson, Corresponding Secretary . 



Wm. Kennedy, Secretary. 



Richard Bull, Treasurer. 



W. H. Ballard, Librarian and Curator. 



T. Mcllwraith, \ 



H. B. Witton, I Members 



A. F. Forbes, 

 I A. T. Freed, 

 [^Chas. H. Mockridge, 



of 



Council. 



PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, 



COUNTY OF WENTWORTH, 

 TO WIT ; 



I, the undersigned. Local Ji dge of the High Court of Jus- 

 tice, of Ontario, and Judge of the Count}^ Court, in and for the 

 said County of Wentworth, certif3^that the w^ithin Declaration 

 of the Hamilton Association within named, together with the 

 hereunto annexed copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the 

 same, have been produced to me, and. the same appear to me to 

 be in conformity wuth section 5, and other provisions of Chapter 

 167 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, entitled, "_Vn Act re- 



