YEAR BOOK OF
THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW-YORK.

1887—1888.
 

T the Annual Meeting of the Society
held May 31, 1887, the number of
members had increased to 440. A
committee was appointed, with W. A.
Ogden Hegeman as Chairman, to
consider the erection of a proper
building for the use of The Holland Society.

The Constitution was amended as to membership
so as to read as follows:

" Article HI.   Members.

" Section 1. No one shall be ehgible as a member
unless he be of full age, of respectable standing in
society, of good moral character, and a descendant
in the direct male line of a Dutchman who was a
native or resident of New York or of the American
Colonies prior to the year 1675. This shall include
those of other former nationalities who found in
 

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