ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY, PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, HELD IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, MAY, 1835; WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND RULES OF THE SOCIETY. BOSTON: PRINTED BY PERKINS, MARVIN, & CO. CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. THE object of this Society is to educate pious young men for the gospel ministry. ART. I. Any person who shall subscribe and shall pay into the Treasury at one time, one hundred dollars, and if a clergyman, forty dollars, shall be an honorary member; and shall have a right to sit and deliberate in all meetings of the Society. But all members hereafter added to the Society, who shall be entitled to vote, shall be chosen by ballot at an annual meeting. ART. II. A permanent fund, consisting of bequests, legacies, and donations, given for this special purpose, shall be formed by the Directors. ART. III. There shall annually be chosen, by ballot, a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, who shall also be Clerk, and such other officers as may be found necessary; who shall continue in office till others shall be chosen in their stead. ART. IV. This Society shall, from time to time, by ballot, elect such a number of honorary Vice Presidents as they may judge expedient. ART. V. The Society shall annually appoint, by ballot, eleven Directors; who, together with the President and Vice President of the Society, shall constitute a Board of Directors, five of whom shall constitute a quorum at any meeting regularly convened. It shall be the duty of this Board to increase the funds of the Society, by soli |