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The Society then proceeded to the stated business of the 

 meeting, — the consideration of the proposed amendments to 

 the Laws of the Society, — and resolved itself into a commit- 

 tee of the whole, Judge Kane in the chair, for the purpose of 

 considering the said amendments. 



After some time the Committee rose, and the Chairman re- 

 ported the draft submitted to them, with sundry amendments, 

 which report was agreed to; — and it was then ordered that 

 the further consideration of the amendments be postponed un- 

 til the next stated meeting of the Society. 



Stated Meeting, February 18, 

 Present, seventeen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — - 



From the Hon. John P. Kennedy, dated Washington, Feb. 

 5, 1853, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election to 

 membership of this Society: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, dated 

 Oct. 30, 1852; and from the Royal Society of Sciences at 

 Upsal, without date, — accompanying donations to this Socie- 

 ty, — and acknowledging the receipt of Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings: — 



From the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hartford, 

 August 14, 1852; from Col. H. K. Craig, dated Ordnance 

 Office, Washington, Feb. 9, 1853; from Wm. B. Reed, Esq. 

 at the request of Lord Mahon, dated Feb, 16; — announcing 

 donations for the Library: — 



From the American Antiquarian Society, dated Worcester, 

 Mass. Feb. 8, 1853; and from the New Jersey Historical So- 

 ciety, dated Newark, Feb. 12, 1853, — returning thanks for 

 No. 48 of the Proceedings: and — 



From Mr. George Parish, dated Ogdensburg, N. Y. 13th 

 Feb. 1853, acknowledging the receipt of the two medals for- 

 warded to him by the Society, as directed at the last meeting. 



