Excerpt from Commonwealth Club of Worcester, Charter, History, by-Laws and House Rules, With a List of Officers and Members, 1897 B. Goodell, Ezra H. Snow, Joseph P. Mason and Moses H. Lowe, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby made an exist ing corporation under the name of the commonwealth club corporation, with the powers, rights and privileges, and sub ject to the limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto. I/vz'z'ness my official Signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the Com monwealth of Massachusetts here unto affixed this twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. 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.