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lution of the Society and to report the same to the 

 full Committee. 



At a meeting held April 6, 1904, the subcommittee 

 presented the outline of a plan of celebration which was 

 adopted. 



A Committee was appointed to urge upon Congress 

 that it should order a medal to be struck to commem- 

 morate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Franklin, of which there should be a single impression 

 in gold to be presented by the President of the United 

 States to the Republic of France, other impressions 

 in bronze to be distributed under the direction of the 

 President of the United States and certain number to be 

 placed at the disposition of The American Philosophical 

 Society for purposes of presentation. 



A Committee was also appointed to request the Legis- 

 lature of Pennsylvania to make an appropriation to aid 

 in defraying the expenses of the celebration, and at the 

 solicitation of this Committee the following Act was 

 passed. 



An Act: Making an appropriation to the American 

 Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for pro- 

 moting useful knowledge, for the celebration of the 

 two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin. 

 Whereas, The two hundredth anniversary of the 



birth of Benjamin Franklin will occur on the seventeenth 



