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public good, and the happiness of these our hitherto 
too much neglected fellow-creatures. 
A plan so extensive cannot be carried into execu- 
tion without considerable pecuniary resources, be- 
yond the present ordinary funds of the Society. We 
hope much from the generosity of enlightened and 
benevolent freemen, and will gratefully receive any 
donations or subscriptions for this purpose, which 
may be made to our treasurer, James Starr, or to 
James Pemberton, chairman of our committee of 
correspondence. 
Signed, by order of the Society, 
B. FRANKLIN, President. 
1789] 2%.