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Meetings of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey

Pursuant to the following call:

I am hereby directed by Vice-President Buck, acting President, to call an extraordinary meeting of the Society for Saturday, March 28th, at three o’clock in the State House, Trenton, New Jersey.

On motion, the reading of the minutes were omitted.

Communications from the Society of the Cincinnati in the States of Massachusetts and South Carolina, were received and ordered placed on file and acknowledgments sent to the respective Societies by the Secretary.

The following report from the Standing Committee was on motion received:

Trenton, N. J., March 28, 1896.
To the Society of the Cincinnati, in the State of New Jersey:

Your Standing Committee would respectfully report that acting under the power vested in them by Article Nine, of the By-Laws, they have appointed:

Franklin Davenport Howell, a member of the Committee, to revise the By-Laws in place of Robert Stockton Green, deceased.

William Scudder Stryker, a member of the Standing Executive Committee of the General Society, in place of Clifford Stanley Sims, deceased.

John Clark Sims, as delegate to the General Society in place of Clifford Stanley Sims, deceased.

Franklin Davenport Howell, alternate, in place of John Clark Sims, appointed delegate, and John Clark Sims, trustee in place of Clifford Stanley Sims, deceased.

A paper prepared as a tribute to the late President, Clifford Stanley Sims who died March 6, 1896, by Reverend Doctor Frank Landon Humphreys, was read by the Secretary, and on motion, was ordered placed on file and presented at annual meeting. July 4th, 1896.

On motion of Mr. Henry Schenck Harris, a committee of three to be appointed by the acting President, was directed to prepare resolutions relative to the death of the late President: