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Articles of incorporation

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written agreements embodying the purposes or other conditions of the association of a number of persons for the pursuit of a joint enterprise; especially those duly executed and filed with a state's administrative authorities so as to have the force of a charter under general incorporation law.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Administrative and financial papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties., 1971-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12971/3-91
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties including administrative and financial papers of the executive committee and various sub committees, local groups, annual reports and publications.

Dates: 1971-1997.

Microfilm of books of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.427
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1612-1793 (MS.3577);

Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1793-1845 (MS.3578).

Dates: 1612-1845.

Miscellaneous membership lists, 1896-1897, 1958-1973, undated, of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians; with the Society's articles of association, 1927; and byelaws, rules, and other memoranda, 1927, 1937-1938, 1964-1965, undated., 1896-1973, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21587
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1896-1973, undated.

Original deed of establishment of the 'Society of Weavers in Finnick'., 14 March 1761.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4702/3
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Records of the Fenwick Weavers' Society, founded in March, 1761 to establish 'proper regulations..amongst us for the better ordering and Government of our said Trade'; the Society had a continuous existence until its dissolution in June, 1873.

Dates: 14 March 1761.