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people owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Nind for the 
great interest he had taken in all belonging to the 
colony, especially in his attempt at colonising a large 
tra6t of land up the Berbice river, from which, if he should 
be successful, the colony would derive great benefit ; 
and he hoped also that Mr. Nind himself would find it 
profitable. They were all indebted to the President for 
his services, and he had therefore great pleasure in pro- 
posing a vote of thanks. 
The Ven. Archdeacon Austin in seconding the motion 
thanked Mr. Nind for his lucid resume of the Society's 
work during the past year, to which he had listened with 
great interest. 
The vote of thanks having been heartily carried, 
the President thanked the meeting for the exceed- 
ingly kind way in which his services had been referred 
to. With regard to his interest in the colony, he hoped 
that a year hence it would be greater than now. He 
had to thank the Legislature of this colony and every one 
connected with the grants of land in Berbice, for the 
liberal way they had behaved. He hoped to give them 
the results in two or three -years, and whoever should be 
President at that time, would perhaps be glad to 
hear that something had been done to open up the 
country. 
The President then proposed a hearty vote of thanks 
to the Treasurer and Secretary for their services gen- 
erally, and especially for their supervision of the 
extension of the Society's Building. The Treasurer had 
done a great work in enforcing rules at the right time so 
as to relieve the Society from what was almost a state of 
anarchy. They all knew that the Secretary was inde- 
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