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 The Chairman designated Messrs. Putnam and Tousey as an Auditing Committee, to examine the accounts of the Society.

On motion, Mr. Stevens called the attention of the Society to the propriety of making some change in the "Declaratory Resolution," so as to define more clearly its position with regard to slavery, urging that the time had come for an open avowal of the determination of the Society to lend its influence to the total abolition of this institution.

The Chairman appointed Messrs. Stevens and McKaye as such Committee on Declaratory Resolution, with power.

On motion of Col. Cannon, it was

Resolved, That the Society will hold Quarterly Meetings on the evenings of the second Saturdays of February, May, August, and November.

At this period in the proceedings, Mr. Blodgett, on behalf of the Committees of the Society, addressed the President, Dr. Lieber, and presented to him, in their name, an elegantly bound set of the "Rebellion Record," with the following remarks:

Dr. Lieber—The pleasing duty has been assigned me of presenting these volumes of the "Rebellion Record" in the name of the Committees of this Society—your associates during the past year. Recognizing, as we do, the cordiality with which you have seconded all efforts of the Committees in promoting the efficiency and usefulness of the Society, we ask your acceptance of these volumes; and, should they find a place on the historic shelves of your library, we trust they will often remind you of an association which has been agreeable to us all, and of profit to our common country.

Dr. Lieber replied in a few, touching, and eloquent remarks.

The President named the following Committees for the ensuing year:

John Austin Stevens, Jr., George P. Putnam, T. G. Glaubensklee,

Dr. F Schutz W. C. Church Chas. Astor Bristed.