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The resolutions were then unanimously adopted, or- 

 dered to be entered upon the records of the Institute, and 

 the Secretary was instructed to forward a copy of them 

 to the family of the deceased. 



SPECIAL MEETING, TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1873. 



A SPECIAL meeting was held this evening to celebrate 

 the centennial anniversary of the destruction of the tea in 

 Boston harbor, Dec. 16, 1773. 



Before proceeding to the special object of the meeting, 

 the following persons, nominated at a previous meeting, 

 were duly elected resident members : 



John M. Bradbury of Ipswich, and Augustus D. Small, 

 Joseph P. Fessenden, Oliver Carlton, George D. Putnam, 

 Mrs. Francis Cox, George M. White, Caroline C. West, 

 Ella Worcester, Sarah E. Smith, Alice Browne, J. Warren 

 Thyng, Walter A*. Hanson, Annie A. Agge, M. H. Rich- 

 ardson, Thomas B. Thayer, T. Lyman Perkins, Lizzie 

 H. Hanson, John G. White, Henry W. Perkins, Mrs. 

 George D. Putnam, of Salem. 



President WHEATLAND opened the exercises by read- 

 ing from the "Essex Gazette," of the ante-revolutionary 

 period, a contemporary account of the destruction of the 

 tea, and also from an original document of 1770, with 

 the autographs of citizens of Rowley, protesting against 

 the tax and binding themselves not to use tea nor have any 

 dealings with the importers thereof until the obnoxious 

 act was repealed. 



Hon. JAMES KIMBALL followed with an admirable paper, 

 carefully prepared, and presenting much historical rnfor- 



