The Salem Athenæum, 1810-1910Berkeley Press, 1917 - 67 sider |
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... Payment for the Athenæum shares was made in two instalments of fifty dollars each , the first due May 23 , 1810 , and the second August 23 , 1810. Eighty persons became proprie- tors on these terms and two others later by the single payment ...
... Payment for the Athenæum shares was made in two instalments of fifty dollars each , the first due May 23 , 1810 , and the second August 23 , 1810. Eighty persons became proprie- tors on these terms and two others later by the single payment ...
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... pay the annual assessments " . Five of the shares held in the treas- ury , however , were sold subsequently in the year , and only one remained to be so leased . In 1843 the Athenæum again began to contract the number of its shares ...
... pay the annual assessments " . Five of the shares held in the treas- ury , however , were sold subsequently in the year , and only one remained to be so leased . In 1843 the Athenæum again began to contract the number of its shares ...
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... payment of six dollars per annum or three dollars for six months " . Happily soon after 1850 the skies began to brighten and before 1854 the shareholders became nearly as numerous as they had been prior to 1827 . So the records run ...
... payment of six dollars per annum or three dollars for six months " . Happily soon after 1850 the skies began to brighten and before 1854 the shareholders became nearly as numerous as they had been prior to 1827 . So the records run ...
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... institution and are annually levied on all shares . Provision for them is found in the charter and action in case of their non - payment is therein designated . At the outset the annual assessment was the only means 38.
... institution and are annually levied on all shares . Provision for them is found in the charter and action in case of their non - payment is therein designated . At the outset the annual assessment was the only means 38.
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... pay , and before it had any productive funds , the annual assessment was considerably more ( espec- ially so if we consider the purchasing power of money ) than it has been in recent years . From 1810 to 1814 it was five dollars ; in ...
... pay , and before it had any productive funds , the annual assessment was considerably more ( espec- ially so if we consider the purchasing power of money ) than it has been in recent years . From 1810 to 1814 it was five dollars ; in ...
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alcoves Andrews annual assessment Appleton Ashton Athenæum the sum Benjamin Barstow Benjamin H Benjamin Merrill Benjamin Peirce Benjamin Pickman bequest by-laws Cabot catalogue Charles Church Corporation Daniel Daniel Appleton Edward Augustus Holyoke Endicott Essex Institute Essex street Fabens fifty dollars five Francis Frederick funds further enacted Gardner George Peabody Harvard Hawthorne Henry Wheatland hundred dollars Ichabod Tucker interest John Clarke Lee John Glen John Glen King John H John Pickering Jonathan Neal Joseph N Joseph Story lectures Leverett Saltonstall librarian literary Mary MASSACHUSETTS meeting Messervy Miss Plummer's næum Nathaniel Bowditch Nathaniel Silsbee Nichols Oliver organization original board Osgood payment Peirce period persons Phillips Philosophical Library Plummer Hall proprie proprietors public library purchase Putnam Rantoul reading room Richard Richardson Salem Athenæum Samuel share or shares Shepard Social Library Society sold Stephen subscribers Thomas thousand dollars Treadwell Treasurer Trus Trustees Upton voted Ward
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Side 63 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Side 28 - ... to collect such facts and observations as tend to the improvement and security of navigation ; " third, " to form a museum of natural and artificial curiosities, particularly such as are to be found beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn.
Side 21 - Item. It is well known, that the valuable scientific library of the celebrated Dr. Richard Kirwanf was, during the revolutionary war, captured in the British Channel, on its way to Ireland, by a Beverly privateer ; and that, by the liberal and enlightened views of the owners of the vessel, the library thus captured was sold at a very low rate ; and in this manner was laid the foundation upon which have since been successively established, The Philosophical Library, so called, and the present Salem...
Side 63 - House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, that the...
Side 63 - ... said corporation; and they shall also be capable in law to take, receive, and hold personal estate, to an amount, the yearly value of which shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, exclusive of the books, papers, memorials, and other articles composing...
Side 64 - Salem, the sum due on such share or shares, and the time and place of sale, at least thirty days before the time of sale ; and such sale shall be a sufficient transfer of the share or shares so sold, to the purchaser ; and...
Side 22 - Thus, in early life, I found near me a better collection of philosophical and scientific works than could be found in any other part of the United States nearer than Philadelphia. And by the kindness of its proprietors I was permitted freely to take books from that library and to consult and study them at pleasure.
Side 65 - This bill having had three several readings, passed to be enacted. TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker. In the Senate, June 20*A, 1812.
Side 22 - ... than could be found in any other part of the United States nearer than Philadelphia. And by the kindness of its proprietors I was permitted freely to take books from that library and to consult and study them at pleasure. This inestimable advantage has made me deeply a debtor to the Salem...
Side 64 - That the proprietors of said Corporation shall have power to impose suitable fines, not exceeding five dollars, for the nonfulfilment or breach of the same by-laws. And the said Corporation shall have a suitable remedy, by action, to recover such fines in any court of law proper to try the same. SECT. 5. Be it further...