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Rh the board, and a declaration of the nature desired having been drawn up and inserted in the minute book, was signed not only by all those who at that time filled the office of trustee, but afterwards, in compliance with a clause of the declaration itself, by every new trustee after his election, and before he could be admitted to a seat at the board. In their answer to the archbishop, copied into the minutes of June 14th, 1764, the trustees, after expressing their thanks for