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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 execution
 without considerable pecuniary resources, beyond
 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.

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