Any person engaged in mercantile pursuits may, if approved by the
Board of Directors, become a member of the Association. Terms:
subscribing the Constitution, and, if a clerk, paying an initiation fee of
two dollars, and seventy-five cents, quarterly in advance; those in busi-
ness on their own account, pay an initiation fee of five dollars, and two
dollars and fifty cents, semi-annually, in advance. All other persons,
not engaged in mercantile pursuits, pay five dollars, annually.

In 1852, the number of members were 774.

The Library at present, (June, 1853,) contains 9352 volumes, to which
daily additions are making. Seventy-five of the best Magazinea and
other Periodicals, American and foreign, are regularly received.

The following gentlemen constitute the “Board of Directors” for
1853.

The Library, at 112 Fourth street, Glasgow’s Row, is open every day,
from 9, A. M., to 10, P. M. On the 1st of January, 1854, the Library
will be moved to the new and spacious building, at present in course of
erection by the “Mercantile Library Hall Company,” (at a cost
of $100,000,) for the use of the Mercantile Library Associatioa, on
Fifth st., sw corsouth-west corner of Locust.

Any information concerning the Order of Odd-Fellows, will be fur-
nished on application to S. G. Wheatley, Tobacco and Cigar dealer,
Fourth st, under Odd-Fellows’ Hall.