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personal estate aforesaid, including the Library and Furniture, and do 

 hereby engage to hold and manage the same upon the trusts and for the 

 uses hereinbefore mentioned. 



In witness whereof, the parties hereto have hereunto set our hands 

 and seals interchangeably the day and year first above written. 



Signed, sealed, and delivered \ 



in presence of ■ 



Henry Siders. ) 



[Stamp, cancelled.] 



[L.S.] 



Albert Fearing 

 Calvin Lincoln. 



Solojion Lincoln. " 



Ezra Stephenson. " 



Fearing Burr. " 



Jonathan Tilson. " 



Henry W. Jones. " 



QUINCY BlCKNELL. " 



George Hersey, Jr. " 



Elijah Shute. " 



Amasa Whiting. " 

 William Fearing, 2d. " 



Arthur Lincoln. " 



Lincoln Fearing. " 



Davtd Whiton. " 

 Thos. T. Bouve. 



GIFT OF $10,000. 



At a special meeting of the Trustees, held May 10, 1871, a com- 

 munication was received from Hon. Albert Fearing, announcing a 

 Gift, in addition to his previous donations, of the sum of Ten 

 Thousand Dollars, to be added to the Trust Funds of the Library, 

 for the purpose of enlarging its usefulness, and upon the terms 

 set forth in his communication, which was as follows : — 



HINGHAM public library. 



Whereas, I Albert Fearing, of Hingham, in the County of Plymouth, 

 and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by my deed, dated the fifteenth day 

 of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, conveyed 

 certain land and the building thereon, situated in said Hingham, and more 

 particularly described in said deed, to Calvin Lincoln and others, Trustees 

 therein named, for the purposes of a Library for the Inhabitants of said 

 Hingham, to be called the Hingham Public Library ; and whereas, I, the 

 said Albert Fearing, paid to said Trustees the sum of Five Thousand Dol- 

 lars in money, in addition to the gift of land and building, for the uses, 

 support and maintenance of said Library, according to the provisions of 

 Indentures between the said Fearing and Calvin Lincoln and others, Trus- 

 tees therein named, which Indentures bear even date with said deed and 

 are to be construed in connection therewith ; and now being desirous of 

 increasing the means of said Trustees for enlarging the usefulness of said 

 Library, I have this day paid to William Fearing, 2d, Treasurer of said 

 Trustees, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, to be by them used and applied 

 for the same purposes to which, by the Indentures aforesaid, my original 



