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Branch oft 10 the District oi Maine. & discourse
was delivered on the occasion by Mr. Reed, OF
marlborough. A Committee was chosen al the
same time to prepare Constitution for the Branch
proposed, composed of the Rev. II Packard, +.
Parker, aud the Hon. Judge Bailey. W


Ihe meeting was then adjourned to the 10th OF
June, at which time il was again holden at Wis
casset, when the Hon. Samuel S. w iide was called
to the chair, and the throne Of Grace was address
ed by the Rev. Mr.. Parker. The " Constitution"
reported by the Committee, appointed for that
purpose, was read aud with some few alterations
and additions adopted. The Hon. Samuel Free
man. was chosen President 0: the Society Rev.
Hezekah Packard, Vice President. Francis
Cook, Esq. Treasurer. REV. |. Nichols, Cores
ponding Secretary. Warren Rice. Esq Recording
Secretary--And the Hon. Samuel ). tide, Daniel
Coney, Matthew Cobb Prentiss Mellen, ,Lathrop
Lewis, Chandler Robbins, William Crosby
George Bradbury, Woodbury. Storer, benjamin
Orr, Jeremiah Bailey Rev. Nathaniel H.
Fletcher, Nathan Tilton, Freeman Parker Viii
liam Miltmore, Jonathan Huse; and stephen
Longfellow, Jun. George W. Wallingford, James
Head, and isaac Ilsley, Esquires, were elected
10 form with the officers aboveIa entioned, Board
of Trustees discourse was delivered in the
evening by the Rev. Mr.. Nichols, to numerous
and respectable auditory. The lively interest IN
the Institution, tia. was expressed by the Judges
Of the Supreme Judicial Court, which was then in
session at Wscasset. yas particularly pleasing.


The pext meeting viii be holdeu in Portland
on the first Thursday of October next, at the meC-
ting house of the Rev. Mr.. Nichols Tue Trustees
will assemble at 5 O'Clock r. NJ and the Society
at k--1he Rev. Mr.. Packard, is appointed to
preach in case of Lis failure, tie Rev, Mr. Par
ker, of Dresden. The. Corresponding Secretary
was requested to cause the above account to be
published.