This Society was incorporated in the Year eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the benevolence and charity, which mark the principles on which it is founded, evince that its Members are keenly alive to the deeds of beneficence and humanity. The following Extracts from the By-Laws will shew the liberality which so eminently distinguishes this Charity.

"All Members, who by age or sickness or any other cause (except drunkenness or malconduct,) are prevented from following the piloting business shall be entitled to the annual sum of $150 payable quarterly.

"Also, all his Children under fourteen years of age shall be entitled to $52 per annum, likewise payable quarterly, and in case the Father be rendered incapable by drunkenness or malconduct, his Children shall receive the yearly allowance notwithstanding.

"When a Member dies $50 shall be paid for his funeral expences; the Widow shall be entitled to $80 per annum, payable quarterly; all his Children under fourteen years of age shall be entitled to $50 per annum.

The Present Officers of the Society are -

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