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saved not only present but very serious future charge, 

 for It is one of the principal points of the St. George's 

 Society to find passage back to England, and to 

 urge back and find provision for destitute English- 

 men, their widows and children. 



" Your petitioners therefor, pray that the Honor- 

 able the Corporation will take this petition into con- 

 sideration and allow the St. George's Society of the 

 City of the City of New York money, or fuel, or 

 clothing, to be laid out or used during the winter 

 which is now about to set in." 



Not deterred by the refusal of the Corporation to 

 assist them the committee worked on, and by means of 

 private subscriptions from members of the Society 

 endeavored to procure the needed funds, and Mr. 

 James Doorman having offered $500, conditionally 

 upon the raising of an additional $1,000, a special 

 subscription was set on foot, which resulted in the 

 collection of a sum of $1,658, out of which 170 in- 

 dividuals and families are said to have been relieved, 

 at a cost of $1,203.38, and the balance of $454.62 

 left over was handed to the Charitable Fund. The 

 Collecting Committee appointed for this special work 

 were then discharged, after receiving the cordial 

 thanks of the Society for their successful exertions 

 in thus mitigating the sufferings of their fellow 

 countrymen in distress. 



The twenty-third of April, 1838, was a proud day 

 for the Sons of St. George in New York ; it was 



