TRANSACTIONS

OF

The National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers,

SUCCESSOR TO

New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association,
ORGANIZED AS THE HAMPDEN COUNTY COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION.

Founded 1854.

Incorporated Dec. 1, 1894.

NO. 90.

ANNUAL MEETING,

Held in Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston, Mass.

April 12-13, 1911,

Office of the Association:

Room 501, International Trust Building, 45 Milk Street,
Corner of Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.

BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COTTON MANUFACTURERS,
IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

AT WASHINGTON.

By vote of the Board of Government, the price of the Transactions is $5.00 per copy to non-members. The price of this issue and the one previous is $1.00 each to members, and the prices of copies previous to Volume 61, is 50 cents to members, but each member is entitled to a copy as a part of the privilege of membership.

No. 6091.

CHARTER.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

BE IT KNOWN, That whereas, EDWARD W. THOMAS, C. J. H. WOODBURY, WILLIAM J. KENT, F. M. MESSENGER, HARRY T. WHITIN, ARTHUR H. LOWE, ALBERT F. KNIGHT, ALFRED M. GOODALE, FRED C. MCDUFFIE and GEORGE W. BEAN have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the NEW ENGLAND COTTON MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION, for the purpose of encouraging scientific investigation and experiment as to the methods of manufacturing cotton; collecting and imparting information relating to this industry, promoting social intercourse among its members; and establishing and maintaining a library of works on textiles in the city of Boston, and have complied with the provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office.

Now, Therefore, I, WILLIAM M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said EDWARD W. THOMAS, C. J. H. WOODBURY, WILLIAM J. KENT, F. M. MESSENGER, HARRY T. WHITIN, ARTHUR H. LOWE, ALBERT F. KNIGHT, ALFred M. GOODALE, FRED C. MCDUFFIE and GEORGE W. BEAN, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the name of the

NEW ENGLAND COTTON MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION,

with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions which by law appertain thereto.

Commonwealth of

Seal of the Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, Massachusetts. and the seal of the Coinmonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed this first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

WILLIAM M. OLIN,

Secretary of the Commonwealth.