It was voted to appropriate one half the surplus in the Treasury towards the establishment of a valuable library of historical and antiquarian works in relation to New England, and to start a subscription of $500 in aid of the project, of which $200 was immediately subscribed, and it is thought the balance can be made up this month. A catalogue of the works desired has been made out, which, we trust, the Directors will be enabled at once to purchase. The income of the Society this year, if this subscription is filled, will amount to $1,100.
A Committee was appointed, to ascertain if a course of Lectures could be prepared in time to be delivered this winter.
The Society contemplates the erection ultimately of a Hall for their library, meetings, and lectures, for which a lot has been offered on liberal conditions.
The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year, (Mr. Starr having declined reëlection as President.)
For President, Timothy Walker. For Vice-President, Lot E. Brewster. For Corresponding Secretary, Chauncey Colton. For Recording Secretary, Henry Crane. For Treasurer, James Lakey. For Directors, Henry Starr, Edmund Gage, Melzer Flagg, Maynard French, Jonathan H. Niles, Wm. Wiswell, Jr.
The following gentlemen have been the Presidents and Vice-Presidents, since its formation:
1845.—Bellamy Storer, President. Ephraim Robbins and Henry Emerson, Vice-Presidents.
1846.—Henry Starr, President. Lot E. Brewster, Vice-President.
1847.—Timothy Walker, President. Lot E. Brewster, Vice-President.