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At a meeting of the Society for Bettering the Condition and 

 Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, on Friday, the ist of Feb- 

 ruary, 1799, 



PRESENT : 



The Bishop of Durham, in the Chair, 



Patrick Colquhoun, Esq., 



Thomas Bernard, Esq., 



William Manning, Esq., 



John Sullivan, Esq., 



The Rev. Dr. Glasse, 



John J. Angerstein, Esq., 



William Wilberforce, Esq., 



Richard Joseph Sulivan, Esq., 



Matthew Martin, Esq., Secretary, 



the Committee appointed to confer with Count Rumford reported 

 that they had had a conference with the Count, and that they were 

 satisfied that the Institution proposed by him would be extremely 

 beneficial and interesting to the community; that, in order to pro- 

 vide the pecuniary funds of the Society at its commencement, it was 

 proposed that subscribers of fifty guineas each should be the per- 

 petual proprietors of the Institution, and be entitled each to per- 

 petual transferable tickets for the lectures and for admission to 

 the apartments of the Institution; and that, as soon as thirty such 

 subscribers offered, it was proposed to call a meeting of those thirty 

 subscribers, in order to lay the plan before them and elect managers 

 for the Institution. 

 Resolved, 

 That the said Report be approved of, and that it be referred to 

 the gentlemen of the select committee to communicate the outlines 

 of the plan to the members of the Committee of the Society, and 

 to such other persons as they shall think fit, desiring that those 

 who wish to have their names inserted among the original subscrib- 

 ers to the Institution would communicate their wish to the special 



committee. -^.^ -^^ 



^-c, , . , r ,.1, • <. \ M. Martin, Secretary. 



(Extracted from the mmutes.) ' -^ 



In consequence of this resolution, a paper was printed 

 by the gentlemen of the select committee, containing 

 the outlines of the plan, and sent round privately among 



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