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MT. SMITH

 The publication in your last weeks paper signed J. Barnes. containing, as it does, little but vague insinuation and scurrility, is justly entitled only to silent contempt. The undersigned think proper however, to submit to the public. through the medium of your next paper, the following brief statement of facts in relation to the subject alluded to. The undersigned did not bring forward the resolutions alluded to, neither had they any agency whatever in originating them, nor did they know that any such measure was con templated, until the resolutions were handed to the chair by another member.

 As to the state of the meeting, it consisted of full average of the number of members usually attending the annual meetings of the Medical Society of the County. The whole number who had been present during the day, with perhaps single exception were in attendance when the subject of the resolutions was discussed, and as has been published from tho records of the Society, voted unan- imously in their favour, "smiies" and other equally authentic sources of information to the contrary notwithstanding.

 WILLIAM BUEL,

 SAMUEL R. CHILDS. Lltchfeld, May 24th, 1927,