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Pages 65 to 80 inclusive, are erroneously paged 16 to 32.

On page 182, Letters from the English Kings and Queens were received from R. R.

Hinman, Esq.

THIS being the day designated by the Executive Committee for the meeting at this place, the Society convened in the Court House at 12 o'clock; the President, Hon. JOSEPH C. HORNBLOWER, LL. D., being in the Chair, and the Hon. JAMES G. KING, one of the Vice Presidents, also in attendance.

Mr. HAYES being absent, Mr. JACOB VAN ARSDALE was appointed Recording Secretary pro tem., and read the minutes of the last meeting.

THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY submitted the correspondence since May, and laid upon the table letters from GEORGE GREEN, Esq. of Dayton, Ohio, and DAVID BISHOP, Esq., of New Brunswick, in acknowledgement of their election as members;-from Hon. GEORGE FOLSOM, Charge d'Affaires at the Hague; CHARLES T. JACKSON, M.D. of Boston, and Prof. JOSEPH HENRY, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting donations for the library;-from G. M. WILKINS, Esq., and L. G. MORRIS, Esq., of Westchester, New York, in relation to matters connected with the publication by the Society of the papers of Governor Lewis Morris ;-from the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and the American Antiquarian Society, and from various individuals in relation to the Society's opera

tions.

He also stated that he had received within a few days a package of valuable pamphlets, transmitted, unsolicited, by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries at Copenhagen, as a donation to the Society

from that distinguished body. From one of these pamphlets he read some passages relating to the Ante-Columbian discoveries in America -a subject in which the Copenhagen Society has taken great interest.

The letter of Hon. Geo. Folsom, accompanied a copy of Lambrechtsen's History of Nieuw Nederland, with an Eulogy on the author, delivered at Middleburg, in the province of Zealand in 1824. Only a few copies of these works remained unsold at Middleburg, and Mr. Folsom very considerately purchased them for distribution among the public libraries in the United States.

Besides these, other donations were announced in the report of the Librarian.

The Treasurers' report exhibited a balance in the Treasury of $532 76, with a large amount of arrearages due.

THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS reported that since the last meeting, another number of the Society's periodical had been issued; completing the 5th volume of the "Proceedings," which, as a whole, would be found to contain much valuable information for both the local and general Historian. They regretted that they had still to notice the remissness of members receiving the Periodical, in not forwarding their subscriptions promptly to the Treasurer.

The Committee also reported that the papers of Governor Lewis Morris were ready for publication, should the Society think proper to direct them to publish another volume of Collections. The papers are accompanied by an introductory memoir, giving a sketch of the life of Governor Morris, prior to his entering upon his duties in New Jersey in that capacity-the papers furnishing all needful information of his subsequent career,-and explanatory notes are appended to the different documents, rendering the volume, to a cousid. erable extent, a documentary history of the political events of New Jersey, from 1738 to 1746. During that period, a constant struggle was kept up between the Executive and General Assembly, and the volume will throw much light upon the relations of the governed and their governors, not only then, but during the whole of the Provincial Era. There are occasional references to the public men of the day and to various topics of interest, which add materially to the value of the papers, and the Committee were assured that their publication would prove creditable to the Society, and be in accordance with one of the main objects of its organization-the dissemination of authentic materials illustrating the history of the State.

It was recommended to embellish the volume with an engraved portrait of Governor Morris, the use of an original likeness, in the possession of L. G. Morris, Esq., of Westchester, N. Y., having been tendered the Society for that purpose.

The Committee submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That another volume of Collections, comprising the papers of Governor Lewis Morris, be published, under the direction of the Committee on Publications, so soon as the condition of the Society's funds from subscriptions to the volume, or other sources, may in their estimation warrant the procedure.

On motion of Mr. FIELD, the report was accepted and the resolution adopted.

MR. WHITEHEAD, from the Committee on Purchases, reported that the additions made to the Library in that way had been few since the last meeting; that some exertions had been made towards perfecting the Society's collection of the public documents of the State, as well as its files of early newspapers, but with little success. The coöpe ration of all the members, in obtaining volumes of the pamphlet laws and of the Minutes of the Legislature in past years, was earnestly so. licited.

Reports from Committees on Monumental Inscriptions being called for, Rev. Dr. MESSLER submitted copies of those in the Lutheran Burying Ground at Pluckamin, prepared for the Society by Rev. R. I. Blair, with some notices of the Church and place. It was in this ground that the British Captain Leslie was interred who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Princeton.

MR. CONGAR urged the members residing in the old towns of the State to comply with the wishes of the Society, and prepare similar returns; remarking upon their value to those engaged in genealogical researches.

HON. JAMES G. KING, from the Committee charged with the management of the Colonial Document Fund, submitted the following report:

The Committee would refer to the several Reports made to the Society in 1848, 1850 and 1851, and have now to state that, since the last meeting of the Society, there have been received from Mr. Henry Stevens nine volumes of a Historical Index of New Jersey Colonial Documents-embracing the period from 12th March, 1664,

to 23d December, 1775, more than one hundred years-each volume containing two hundred manuscript cards, or 1800 in all.

As a part of their Report, the Committee desire to include extracts from Mr. Steven's letter of 20th July, 1851, as follows:

By the last steamer I sent you, through Mr. Putnam, the result of my investigations into the early history of New Jersey. The work fills nine volumes in quarto cases, covered with blue morocco, and having locks and keys. The entire work consists of eighteen hundred separate cards, each containing an abstract of soine paper relating to New Jersey, found in the Queen's State Paper Office. A reference to the particular place where each document may be found is given, together with the date, and its length in the number of folios. A folio as estimated in the State Paper Office consists of 72 words, and the official price of having copies made, being regulated by law at four pence per folio, the price of copying each document may readily be estimated. The cards are arranged chronologically, two hundred in each case, and each case has the first and last date lettered on the back.

The work has been much more laborious than I at first anticipated, and even now is not so complete as I would like to make it. As far as we have gone, however, nothing has been omitted; but as we are groping our way, as it were blindfolded, through huge folios of manu. scripts badly arranged, it is impossible to tell what may yet turn up. The whole field for the regular search in the State Paper Office has been gone over; but still there are other miscellaneous volumes, and recent additions, which have not yet been examined thoroughly, though I know that some forty or fifty documents are among those papers, and perhaps more may yet be found, though probably not many.

From these calendars I have wholly omitted three very important series of papers, which exist in the State Paper Office, from the great difficulty of making intelligible abstracts. These are

1. Journals of the House of Representatives of New Jersey, tolerably complete, from 1703 to 1775; the most of which prior to 1728 being in manuscript, and the rest printed.

2. Minutes of Council in Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, from 1734 to 1775, nearly complete, in manuscript.

3. Minutes of Council of the Province of New Jersey, from 1768 to 1775. These are all in manuscript, and are of the greatest importance.

On the 15th Nov. 1849, I wrote you fully about these three series of of papers, and sent you full lists of them chronologically arranged.