CONTENTS. NOTE OF COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION ..... REPORT OF THE COUNCIL ................... EMERGENT TREASURY SUPPLY IN MASSACHUSETTS IN EARLY Days, A SCHEME FOR THE CONQUEST OF CANADA IN 1746, Victor Hugo JEREMY TAYLOR AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH, AN ANCIENT INSTANCE OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, Samuel Ulley, 125 167 PROCEEDINGS AT THE MEETING ..... LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN ANCIENT, MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN TIMES, Carroll D. Wright........ MEMORIAL OF GEORGE F. HOAR, Edward E. Hale .. NOTICE OF YUCATAN WITH SOME REMARKS ON ITS WATER SUPPLY, THE JACKSON AND VAN BUREN PAPERS, William MacDonald ... ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE NEWSPAPER FILES IN THE REMARKS ON THE EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS AND THE CAM- BRIDGE PRESS IMPRINTS, 1640–1692, IN THE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, Nathaniel Paine .. 280 COLUMBUS, RAMON PANE AND THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Edward G. Bourne. PROCEEDINGS. SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 26, 1905, AT THE HALL OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN BOSTON. The meeting was called to order by the President, the Hon. STEPHEN SALISBURY. The following members were present: Edward E. Hale, Nathaniel Paine, Stephen Salisbury, Samuel A. Green, Edward L. Davis, James F. Hunnewell, Edward H. Hall, Albert H. Hoyt, Charles C. Smith, Edmund M. Barton, Franklin B. Dexter, Charles A. Chase, Samuel S. Green, Andrew McF. Davis, Solomon Lincoln, Daniel Merriman, Reuben Colton, Henry H. Edes, George E. Francis, J. Phinney Baxter, G. Stanley Hall, Charles P. Greenough, Francis H. Dewey, Carroll D. Wright, William T. Forbes, George H. Haynes, Charles L. Nichols, Waldo Lincoln, Edward S. Morse, John Noble, Austin S. Garver, A. Lawrence Rotch, Samuel Utley, E. Harlow Russell, Benjamin T. Hill, Edmund A. Engler, Alexander F. Chamberlain, William MacDonald, Roger B. Merriman, Victor H. Paltsits, Daniel B. Updike. The report of the Council was presented by Judge SAMUEL UTLEY and ANDREW MCFARLAND DAVIS, A.M., of Cambridge. The latter read a paper, entitled, “Emergent Treasury-Supply in Massachusetts in Early Days." Judge WILLIAM T. FORBES of Worcester said, that in the records at the Registry of Deeds in Worcester, he |