64 KEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE 



call in question the accuracy of the list which might 

 be communicated. 



Mr. Du Ponceau is a little inaccurate in saying that 

 Governor Franklin was admitted at the meeting 

 preceding that at which Dr. Franklin was elected, 

 on merely signing the Amended Eules etc. The 

 fact is, he was offered an admission on these terms, 

 but he never availed himself of the offer, having 

 never attended or signed. The minute making the 

 offer is in these words : 



"His Excellency William Franklin, Esq., being 

 now the only member of the ancient Society who has 

 not signed the rules in this book, Dr. Evans is de- 

 sired to inform him, that, agreeable to what was 

 concluded on in reviving the Society, if he chooses 

 to sign our Kules and give us a meeting, he shall be 

 considered as a regular member. " Junto Minutes, 

 Part 2, 82. 



By this extract it appears that William Franklin 

 is deemed to be the only member of the ancient 

 Society who had not signed the Eules in the Second 

 Part of the Junto Minute book. Now, if Franklin 

 had been a member of the ancient Society here re- 

 ferred to, this would not have been true; for he had 

 never signed. 



Of the twelve members with which the minutes of 

 the Society-Junto begin, Francis Rawle and Philip 

 Syng, Jun. are known to have been dead at the time 

 referred to (February 12, 1768) ; Chevalier had for- 



