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preliended that, if no minutes were kept, " fewer 

 queries would be discussed than otherwise would be, 

 and the Junto consequently less improved. " 



Turn as Secretary came round not much sooner 

 than a year. 



Feb. 2. "If this want of zeal, this disinclination to 

 industry and due attendance should continue, is it 

 not evident that a dissolution of the Society must 

 speedily follow!" "As our anniversary will be held 

 next Monday, when it is customary for us to express 

 our good wishes for the Society's prosperity " etc. 

 the company proposing to celebrate their anniver- 

 sary, -the Secretary is appointed to bespeak an enter- 

 tainment suitable to the occasion. 



Feb. 5. (Monday) Minutes at the Widow Gray's. 

 "Wm. Franklin at sea." 



"This night, agreeable to a fundamental law of 

 this Society, the original laws were distinctly read, 

 and also the bye-laws." 



February 23rd. Edward Duffield ballotted for and 

 approved. "Edm d . Physick and Wm. Hopkins are 

 appointed to speak to him. ' ' 



Sep. 27th. "As several of the original laws have 

 been abrogated or changed, and several Bye-Laws 

 made now are in force, and which lie scattered upon 

 and down in the book, E. Physick and Charles 

 Thomson, the Committee before appointed, are de- 

 sired to make a collection of such laws" etc. 



1760. February 1st. Next Tuesday being our anni- 



