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instating the stones that had fallen within memory. This would be 

 one of the matters taken up, when they met at the end of the year. 



The Rector of Devizes returned thanks for the compliment, 

 and assured the Association that the clergy, as a body, were most 

 earnestly desirous to preserve the beauty of those grand old Churches 

 of which they were in charge, and he hoped the day might long be 

 distant when those noble monuments of past piety should pass from 

 the great and glorious work to which they were now applied. 



Mr. De Grey Birch moved a cordial vote of thanks to the 

 Mayor and Corporation of Devizes, for the manner in which they 

 had received the Society demanded that they should tender them 

 their best acknowledgments. It was important that when a Society 

 like theirs came to such a town as Devizes they should have the 

 good will and co-operation cf the governing body of the town ; and 

 he could say they had never been more kindly or liberally treated by 

 any Corporation than by the Corporation of Devizes. 



The Mayor acknowledged the compliment : and then Mr. Myers 

 proposed that the thanks of the Association be given to the Wilts 

 Archaeological Society. Their reception, he said, by that body had 

 been of the most cordial kind. The assistance and co-operation 

 that had been given them on visiting this town had been more than 

 they had ever received before, from the President down to the 

 Custodian of the beautiful Museum. Everything had been done 

 that possibly could be done in giving the Association a cordial 

 reception. He congratulated the town on its beautiful Museum in 

 connection with the Wilts Archseological Society. 



The Rev. H. A. Olivier briefly replied. Other complimentary 

 votes followed, to those who had so hospitably entertained them, 

 Mr. Walter Powell, M.P., Sir Gabriel Goldney, M.P., Dr. Jennings, 

 Mr. Kemm, Mr. Talbot, and the Mayor and Mayoress of Devizes, 

 moved by Colonel Bramble : to the Honorary Local Secretaries, 

 Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Butcher, moved by Mr. Wright: and last, 

 but not least, to the Honorary Congress Secretary, Mr. Wright, to 

 whose indefatigable exertions, energy, good humour, and tact very 

 much of the success of the meeting was due; moved by the President. 



