pact, not only deeper than all local law, but deeper also than all local institutions."1 It may not be without use to say, by way of a note to what goes before, as tending further to show the contemporary opinion of the invalidity of the Ordinance as a legal enactment, that the first Congress of the United States under the Constitution, at its first session passed an act, the express purpose of which, as declared in the preamble, was that the Ordinance of 1787 should continue to have full effect. 1 Webster's Works, Vol. III., pp. 264, 278. CONTENTS. PAGE JOSEPH SARGENT, M.D.: Action of the Council. 349 FIRST COLLEGE BUILDING AT CAMBRIDGE: Andrew McF. Davis . . 469 THE ALABAMA STONE: Henry W. Haynes . 487 NOTE. This number completes the current volume of the Proceedings An Index to Vol. V. will be printed and mailed to members of the Society. ACTION OF THE COUNCIL. DEATH OF JOSEPH SARGENT, M.D. AT a meeting held October 20, 1888, the President, STEPHEN SALISBURY, offered resolutions of respect, and said: It is my sad duty to call the attention of the Council to the death of Dr. Joseph Sargent, which occurred Oct. 13. Dr. Sargent was elected a member of our Society in October, 1860, and three years later he became a member of the Council, and has served the Society in that office since that time. Of the strong interest that he felt in all that concerned the American Antiquarian Society I do not need to remind you, for you yourselves are cognizant of it. The same fidelity he displayed in the discharge of his many professional and business obligations, he showed in full measure in the various societies and institutions with which he was connected. Dr. Sargent took especial delight in literature, and, an accomplished linguist and a writer of very graceful expression, he found in our Society and its associations what was most congenial to his refined and cultivated mind. His style as a writer was clear and terse. His easy familiarity with the Latin gave to all his productions a grace and directness which, united with a facility of composition and a quick mental process, caused him to be frequently called upon for literary service. He made the report of the Council in 1865, on "The Medical Department of the U. S. Army during the War of the Rebellion," a subject which his own observations in the field and in the hospital, during a portion of the war, made of great value to history. In |