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for twelve years faithfully and efficiently fulfilled the 

 onerous duties of Secretary. 



With such examples before it and with such ma- 

 terial to support it, the Society need have no fear 

 that the work which was started in 1786, and has 

 been continued down to the present day, will suffer 

 from lack of men to do it, or of means to carry it 

 on. 



A RETROSPECT. 



Such in brief, is the history of the St. George's 

 Society of New York. As with most institutions 

 of the kind, the work of administering its charities 

 has fallen upon a few, but as those that have been 

 prominent in its affairs have died or become disa- 

 bled by reason of age or infirmity, others have step- 

 ped in to fill the breach, and thus its efficiency has 

 been at all times maintained. 



The investment of its funds has been character- 

 ized by extreme prudence and care, fromi the date 

 of the establishment of the Permanent Fund in 1824 

 down to the present time. The amount held by the 

 Treasurer of money invested on this account on Jan- 

 uary 9th, 1886, aggregating $46,915, market value. 



While the St. George's Society, as now consti- 

 tuted, was established in the year 1 786, there would 

 appear to have been an organization of Englishmen 



