IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION I. John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, and Charles W. Tuttle, their associates and successors, are made a corporation by the name of the PRINCE SOCIETY, for the purpose of preserving and extending the knowledge of American History, by editing and printing such manuscripts, rare tracts, and volumes as are mostly confined in their use to historical students and public libraries.
SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 18, 1874.
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NOTE.—The Prince Society was organized on the 25th of May, 1858. What was undertaken as an experiment has proved successful. This ACT OF INCORPORATION has been obtained to enable the Society better to fulfil its object, in its expanding growth.