Chapter XXVIII: Section I: John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, and

Charles W. Tuttle, their associates and successors, are made a corporation by the name of the PRINCE SOCIETY, for the purpose of preserving and extending the knowledge of American History, by editing and printing such manuscripts, rare tracts, and volumes as are mostly confined in their use to historical students and public libraries.