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Without inviting you to the indulgence of extravagant 

 congratulations, your Council are fully convinced that your 

 Society enjoys as large a measure of prosperity as it has 

 ever possessed,— that it continues to diffuse useful and solid 

 information, and that which in the intercourse of life is even 

 more valuable — an enlightened and liberal feeling, and that 

 both in its immediate and remote operation it is gradually 

 realizing those interesting purposes for which it was instituted. 

 Under these impressions they cheerfully resign the admi- 

 nistration of your several affairs to those whom it is your 

 business to appoint this day as their successors. 



