ACT OF INCORPORATION. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN. An act to incorporate the American Education Society. Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that William Phillips, Samuel Salisbury, Eliphalet Pierson, William Reed, Joshua Bates, Asa Eaton, Samuel H. Walley, and Aaron P. Cleveland, together with those who have associated, and who may hereafter associate with them, be and are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. And the Society aforesaid shall have perpetual succession, and may have a common Seal, which it shall be lawful for them to alter at pleasure; and may purchase and receive, by gift or devise, lands, tenements, and real estate of any kind, and the same hold in fee simple or less estate, the annual income and profits whereof shall not exceed the value of ten thousand dollars. And the said Society is hereby enabled to take and receive subscriptions of charitably disposed persons, and may take any personal estate in succession; and all donations to the Society, either by subscription, legacy, or otherwise, (excepting such, as shall be differently appropriated by the donors, or by a vote of the Society agreeably to their Constitution,) shall make a part or be put into the capital stock of the Society, which shall be put out on interest on good security, or otherwise improved to the best advantage, and the income or profits applied to the purpose of aiding indigent young men of talents and hopeful piety in acquiring a learned and competent education for the Gospel Ministry. Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the said Society may choose a President, Vice-President, Clerk, Treasurer, and such other officers as they shall see fit; and may at their first meeting under this incorporation, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at said meeting, adopt such Constitution or system of Rules and By-laws, as they shall think necessary for the orderly conducting and executing the business of said Society, and for the most effectually securing the object of their institution; which Constitution or system of Rules and By-laws shall be for the government of said Society, and shall not be altered at any subsequent meeting, but in the manner therein pointed out: provided such Rules and By-laws be not repug. nant to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. Section 3. Be it further enacted, that the Society aforesaid may at all times under the name, style, and title aforesaid, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute, and defend to final judgment and execution, and may appoint an Agent or Agents, to prosecute and defend suits with power of substitution; and it shall be lawful for the said Society to make sale of any estate or personal property, given or purchased, as aforesaid, or in any other way or right accruing to them in their corporate capacity, (unless that, which is given, be otherwise expressly ordered or appropriated by the donor,) and convey the same by deed or other legal instrument, duly executed; and, when the property to be conveyed is real estate, under the hand of the Treasurer and the Seal of the Society: provided that all moneys, arising from such sale, be applied to the same use to which the income thereof was before applied. Section 4. Be it further enacted, that William Phillips, Esquire, be and hereby is authorized by notification, in any two of the newspapers. printed in Boston, to appoint the time and place of the first meeting of said Society. Approved, Dec. 4, 1816. Copy examined by A. BRADFORD, Secretary of Commonwealth. DIRECTIONS TO APPLICANTS. I. No one can be considered a candidate for patronage, who has not pursued classical studies for at least three months, and who has not attained the age of fourteen years. II. No person shall be regarded as a candidate who does not discover promising talents, decided piety, and who is not in the way of obtaining a thorough classical and theological education; that is,-preparing to enter college; or a member of some regularly constituted college, where a thorough classical course is pursued; or engaged in a three years' theological course. III. When a young man applies for patronage, he must obtain decided testimonials from three or more respectable persons, best acquainted with him, stating his age, place of residence, indigence, moral and religious character, including church connection, talents, previous education, and serious desire to devote his life to the Christian ministry. These testimonials should be sealed papers, that the writers may speak freely in regard to the character of the applicant. Having obtained these testimonials, the applicant must present his request for examination and recommendation to some Examining Committee in his neighborhood. If no such Committee is known to have been appointed, the applicant or his friends may write for information to the Secretary of the Parent Society; or if he resides within the limits of a Branch, to the Secretary of said Branch. Whenever a young man has taken the above course, and been examined, and recommended, by an authorized Committee, to the Board of Directors of the Parent Society, or of one of its Branches, he may be admitted on trial, at the discretion of the Board, for a period not less than three months. Examining Committees are sentinels placed at the door of the Christian ministry. Their recommendation is the most important step towards obtaining access to the funds. If they are unfaithful, it will be difficult to prevent a perversion of these funds, and a serious injury to the church of God. The concerns of this Society are so extensive and complicated, that a rigid conformity to the RULES is indispensable. The Quarterly Meetings of the Board, when only appropriations will be made, are on the second Wednesdays of January, April, July, and October. All returns and applications should be in the hands of the Secretary of the General Society by the first day of each of these months. The Boards of the several Branch Societies meet a few weeks previous to the meetings of the Board of the Parent Society. Returns and applications from young men within the limits of the respective Branches, should be sent to their several Secretaries, in early season for these meetings. The Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Education Society, meet on the last Tuesday of March, June, September, and December. Blank Schedules, Notes, and copies of the Rules of the Society, may be had gratuitously, at any time, by applying to the Secretary of the Parent Society, or to the Secretaries of either of the Branches. Closing Appeal, Monitory Voice of Providence, 31 THE Quarterly Register of the American Education Society, will be hereafter conducted by MR. BELA B. EDWARDS, Assistant Secretary of the Society, who will be the only responsible editor. The readers of the Register will require no assurance respecting its future character, when they are told that the publication is already chiefly indebted to Mr. Edwards for the degree of reputation which it has acquired, and that arrangements have been made, which will enable him to give a larger share of his attention to the work, and to enrich every department which it contains. E. CORNELIUS, Late Senior Editor, and Sec'ry of the Am. Ed. Soc. TERMS OF VOLUME IV. The Numbers will be issued quarterly, on the first day of August, November, February, and May. Price to subscribers, $1 50 payable in advance. The discount to agents as follows: On 10 copies of the work, 25 50 do. do. 20 per cent. 331 do. Those who fail to give notice of their wish to discontinue the work at the close of one volume, will be considered as subscribers for the next. DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS. All who have not yet remitted the amount due for the work are earnestly requested to forward the same without delay, as the bills for the last volume are now due, and the work being scarcely able, with every dollar of subscription money, to maintain an existence. Three dollars is a convenient sum to remit, and will pay for the past volume and that of the ensuing year. Letters addressed to the publishers of the Quarterly Register, Boston, Massachusetts. LIST OF AGENTS. PERKINS & MARVIN, GENERAL AGENTS, MAINE. No. 114, Washington Street, Boston. Elijah S. Scott, Bangor. NEW HAMPSHIRE. VERMONT. MASSACHUSETTS. H. & F. J. Huntington, Hartford. Jonathan Leavitt, 182, Broadway, N. Y. Correspondents are requested to pay particular attention to the following NOTICES. In consequence of the removal of the Secretary of the American Educa tion Society to New York, and the additional duties assigned him as Corresponding Secretary of the Presbyterian Education Society, agreeably to the arrangement mentioned at p. 21 of this Report, it is requested that communications may hereafter be sent as follows: Letters from young men under patronage throughout the United States (not including the schedules of those in New England, nor of those under the care of Branch Societies out of New England); Returns from Branch Societies or Agencies, out of New England and letters on all subjects of a general nature;-should be directed to Rev. E. CORNELIUS, Sec'ry of the A. E. S. and Cor. Sec'ry of the Pres. Ed. Soc., No. 144, Nassau Street, NEW YORK CITY. Returns from Branches in New England, containing the schedules of beneficiaries, and the reports of the quarterly or other meetings of their Boards of Directors, and Communications relating to the QUARTERLY REGISTER, should be sent to MR. BELA B. EDWARDS, Assistant Sec'ry of th Communications, on all subjects connected with the business of raisin funds, and sending delegates to attend anniversaries of Branches and Aux iliaries, should be sent to REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, General Agent, BOSTON. Donations of all kinds, intended for the Parent Society, should be sent HARDY ROPES, Esq. Treasurer, BOSTON, or, if more convenient, deposited with the Treasurer of a Branch Societ Donations to the Presbyterian Education Society, should be sent to NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR PATRONAGE. No time need be lost, nor postage wasted, by writing to know if you men can be patronized by the Society. The answer in all cases is, Y if the applicant has the requisite qualifications, and conforms to the rules When a young man of the proper character wishes to obtain assistan let him attend to the directions on page 63, of this Report; and havi obtained the requisite testimonials, let him apply to the Examining C mittee appointed for the portion of country where he resides, concerni whom he will obtain information at p. 34. By pursuing this course he v experience no perplexity and but little delay. |