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preservation, and therefore it is lost, or at least, is imperfect and unsatisfactory. 

 Our duty, as a Society, is not so much to make money, as to diffuse informa- 

 tion upon the subject, for our improvement in which, our organization was 

 created. I trust the subject is one which may engage your attention at no very 

 distant day, and that such action may be taken upon it as will best subserve th6 

 interests and objects of the Society. 

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