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Published: 2016-06-17

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ISBN-13: 9781332593170

Excerpt from The Introductory Discourse and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August 1834: Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers The Institute came to order at ten o'clock, A. M. Mr James G. Carter of Lancaster in the chair. The record of doings of the last annual meeting were read in part; the reading of the remainder was dispensed with. Voted, That Messrs A. Andrews of Charlestown, Pike, and Robinson of Boston, be a Committee to fix the hour of meeting of the Institute on the several days of the session, and also the hour at which the several lectures shall be given. Voted, That Messrs H. W. Carter of Boston, A. Andrews of Charlestown, and W. H. Brooks of Salem, be a Committee to report for the newspapers the daily transactions of the Institute, and to announce the lectures and other exercises of the ensuing day. Voted, That the Clergymen of Boston and the vicinity, and the editors of newspapers and other periodicals, be invited (through the papers) to attend the present session of the Institute. Voted, That Messrs J. Abbott, G. F. Thayer, F. Emerson and P. Mackintosh of Boston, B. F. Farnsworth of Providence, W. H. Brooks of Salem, and J. Fairbank of Charlestown, be a Committee to nominate individuals for the officers of the Institute for the current year. Voted, That Mr G. F. Thayer be a Committee to introduce the Rev. Mr Young of Boston, the officiating clergyman, into the Institute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.