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same Words, without any Equivocation, Mental Evasion, 

 or Secret Reservation whatsoever. And I do make this 

 Recognition, Acknowledgment, Abjuration, Renunciation 

 and Promise, Heartily, Willingly and Truely, upon the 

 true Faith of a Christian. 



So Help me GOD. 



JOS. WOLCOT. 



Capt. the 26 : of March, 1722. 



Cor. BENJ. LYNDE, > f T . A/r . 



JOHN TURNER, \ of hls M > 8t ? s Council. 



THEOPHILUS BURRILL. 

 Jurat the 21th day of May, 1722. 



us > JOHN 'SS \ f his M J cst ^ Cou ciL 



WM. GEDNEY. 



ESSEX, ss, Salem, 19th of July, 1722. 

 Jurat, Cor. 



BENJ. LYNDE, ) c , . AT . 



JOHN TUKNEB, J of llls Ma J^*y s Couno.l. 



JOHN WILLIAMS. 



ESSEX, ss, Salem, the 7th of Aug't, 1722. 



Mr. John Williams took the above Oath before us, 

 BEXJ. LYNDE, ) f , . Af . . , ^ 

 JOHN TUKNEB, f hls M; 'J^ty' S Council. 



Mr. F. W. PUTNAM read a communication from Commo- 

 dore B. F. Sands of the United States Naval Observatory 

 requesting the several scientific societies to memorialize 

 congress for an appropriation to defray the expenses for a 

 due observation of the Transit of Venus in December, 

 1874. 



Referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Kimball, 

 Upham, and the chair to report at the next meeting. 



Adj. 



