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It must be remembered, continental money was the 

 currency. Six pound specie was then equivalent to 

 £ 187 10. 



A levy of Jive pound specie was made for the service of 

 the next year. 



The Company continued to increase and flourish under 

 the original brief adopted code of salutary rules. The 

 meetings of business were annual or oftener, as occasion 

 demanded and full and succinct minutes of proceedings 

 and records of accounts were regularly kept by Mr. T. 

 Morris, the Treasurer and Secretary. 



No person was admitted to membership, "but by 

 consent of a majority of the managers for the time 

 being," until 1769, when the Club ballotted for all 

 the proposed candidates. An annual tax was laid, called 

 subscription money, for the service of the year, generally 

 amounting to four pounds each, and the Treasurer regu- 

 larly reported his account, which was examined and con- 

 firmed. 



The following respectable gentlemen were admitted 

 members, after the organization, and before the Club's 

 meetings were suspended by the events of the War of 

 Independence. 



Jeremiah Warder, Joseph Penrose, Joseph Budden, 

 Edward Cottrell, Thomas Foxcroft, John Mitchell, and 

 Joseph Jones, in 1 768. 



William Parr, Esq. James White, George Morris, 

 William Hiorn, Nathaniel Lewis, Joseph Bullock, Sam- 



