Excerpt from New England Society in the City of Brooklyn: Certificate of Incorporation, by-Laws, Officers and Members; June 1880 There shall be a Council of thirty members, to be appointed by the Directors annually. It shall be the duty of the Council to advise the Directors and Officers as to the best means of promoting the interests of the Society. The members of the Council may attend the meetings of the Directors for consulting and advisory purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.