Excerpt from The Annual Report of the Connecticut Historical Society: Reports and Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 23, 1940; Also a List of Officers and Members and of Donations for the Year In May, 1839, the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut passed an act in which was recited, from the act of incorporation of the Society on May, 1825, the proviso that said corporation should meet once a year, for the choice of a President and other officers. The act further reads as follows: but since the year 1825, there has been no election of Officers in said Society; and it is now a matter of doubt whether the Charter of said Society is not forfeited by non-user; and if otherwise, it is difficult to ascertain who are now members. It was Resolved and declared, by this Assembly, that the existence of said society, as a body corporate, with the powers and privileges originally granted thereto, be con tinned and perpetuated, as though its Officers had been chosen annually since This resolution would seem to clearly cure the real or apparent neglect by the Society to hold a meeting annually for the election of Officers from 1825 to 1839, and to give a continuous existence to the Society during that period. It Was further resolved that a stated list of thirty - three gentlemen, all the names of whom were among those most prominent in the com munity, shall be deemed the present members of said Society, and Shall continue such. 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.