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In the afternoon the hall was well filled, the people of Gloucester 

 turning out in large numbers and manifesting a promising degree of 

 interest in the objects of the meeting. The out-of-town delegates oc- 

 cupied the centre of the hall, every fishing port of New England of 

 any prominence being represented. The following is a 



LIST OF THE DELEGATES : 



New York — Oscar Comstock, Eugene Blackford. 



Boston — Augustus Winsor, Freeman Emery, Richard L. Mayo. 



Provincetown — Joshua Payne, James Gifford, William Matthew- 

 son, P. A. Wharf, N. E. Atwood, John D. Hillard and J. P. 

 Johnson. 



Wellfleet — James Swett, Jesse H. Freeman, Robert B. Jenkins 

 and J. C. Young. 



Harwichport — Thomas B. Baker and William B. Kelly. 



Chatham — George Eldridge and John E. Perry. 



Truro — Atkins Hughes. 



Marblehead — George Knight and William B. Knight. 



Beverly — David Crowell, Clark C. Foster and Gustavus Ober. 



Rockport — George Griffin, Joshua Tarr, John Parsons, Loring 

 Grimes, George M. McLain, Zebulon Tarr, George J. Tarr, George 

 Elwell, Eben G. Abbott and N. F. S. York. 



Portland — George J. Trefethen, Oren B. Whitten, A. M. Smith, 

 J. A. Emery, C. A. Dyer, E. S. Chase and A. M. Joyce. 



Southwest Harbor — Alvah Dolliver and M. B. Kin°\ 



Swan's Island — William P. Herrick. 



Vinalhaven — Edwin Lane, H. V. Lane, Stephen Dyer and T. 

 H. Libby. 



Boothbay — A. R. Nickerson, J. C. Poole and L. Maddocks. 



Ogunquit — Daniel W. Perkins. 



Lamoine — Lewis King. 



Bucksport — Thomas M. Nickerson. 



OPENING ADDRESS. 



The Convention was called to order by Sylvester Cunningham, 

 Esq., chairman of the Gloucester Committee, who spoke as follows : 



Gentlemen of (he Convention : — There is no need of stating to 

 you the object that has brought us together. 



Twelve years ago, when we heard of the treaty that had been 



