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and services performed in accordance with the Can- 

 ons of the Church and the customary regulations of 

 the diocese. 



The efforts of Mr. Marcus in England in raising 

 the needed funds were supplemented by those of 

 Mr. Robert Bunch, then Her Brittanic Majesty's 

 Vice Consul in New York, who succeeded in col- 

 lecting $10,823.55, of which $823.55 was subscribed 

 specifically, as alleged, for the purpose of building 

 the Hospital, and $10,000 for the Church or Chapel. 

 These amounts, however, having been found to be 

 totally inadequate for the purpose intended, over- 

 tures made at this time to the Church of St. George 

 the Martyr by the Corporation of St. Luke's Hos- 

 pital, which had been started about the same time 

 through the exertions of the Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, 

 rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, 

 looking to the surrender of the land in question 

 upon certain terms, were entertained, and the Church 

 of St. George the Martyr being unable, through lack 

 of sufficient money, to fulfill the obligations upon 

 which the grant of land was held, and St. Luke's 

 having the needed funds, an agreement was eventu- 

 ally entered into between the two corporations on 

 the 1 8th of October, 1852, under which the lots held 

 by St. George the Martyr, on Fifth avenue, were 

 made over to St. Luke's Hospital, upon the follow- 

 ing, among other, conditions : 



