WHE HEREAS, JAMES H. LUCAS, ELIHU H. SHEpard, WilliaM G. ELIOT, SILAS BENT, ALBERT TODD, CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, WILSON PRIMM, HENRY SHAW, NATHAN RANNEY, JOHN KNAPP, JAMES B. EADS, WM. A. LYNCH, JOHN F. DARBY, ISAIAH FORBES, GREEN ERSKINE, JAMES G. BARRY, JOSEPH M. P. Nolan, WM. H. H. RUSSELL, GEORGE KNAPP, RICHARD DOWLING, JOHN B. JOHNSON, EDWARD BROOKS, et al., have filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County their Articles of Association, in compliance with the provisions of an "Act concerning Corporations," approved March 19, 1866, with their petition for Incorporation under the name and style of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, [SEAL.] they are therefore hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style aforesaid, with all the powers, privileges, and immunities granted in the Act above named. By order of the Circuit Court. Attest, JOHN LEWIS, Clerk Circuit Court of St. Louis County. CONSTITUTION. NAME OF THE SOCIETY. This Society shall be known as the "MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ST. LOUIS." OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. I. The general object of this Society shall be to encourage historical research and enquiry, spread historical information, especially within the State of Missouri, and also within the entire Mississippi Valley, and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history. 2. The particular objects of this Society shall be: First, The establishment of a library of books and publications, appropriate to such an institution, with convenient works of reference, and also a cabinet of antiquities, relics, etc.; Second, The collection, into a safe and permanent depository, of manuscripts, documents, papers and tracts, possessing a historical value and worthy of preservation; Third, To encourage investigation of aboriginal remains, and more particularly, to provide for the complete and scientific exploration and survey of such aboriginal monuments as exist within the limits of this State |