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tlie following officers were chosen by written ballot for the present year : 

 Benjamin H. Corliss, president; George Garland, vice-president; Joseph 

 O. Proctor, treasurer; Addison Gilbert, secretary." 



The " Gloucester Female Charitable Association " was incorporated 

 January 22, 1872. It now has a membership of thirty-four ladies, who 

 are assessed $ L each per annum. This society has at the present time a 

 fund of $3,500, $1,500 of this being a bequest, of which only the interest 

 can be used, while the remainder is subject to the action of the society. 



This organization is not for the exclusive purpose of* relieving the 

 needy relatives of fishermen and seamen, but "for the deserving poor 

 of Gloucester." It is scarcely necessary to say that nearly all of the 

 " deserving poor of Gloucester" are such as have been left destitute by 

 the loss of their natural protectors. 



