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FORM OF A BEQUEST TO THE SOCIETY.

"THE

I GIVE unto the Treasurer for the time being, of LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY," formed in London in the year 1806, the sum of Pounds, sterling, to be paid

out of such part only of my personal estate as shall not consist of mortgages or chattels real, for the purposes of the said Society; and for which the receipt of such Treasurer shall be a sufficient discharge.

Devises of Lands, or money charged on Land, or secured on Mortgages of Lands or Tenements, or to be laid out in Land or Tenements, or to accrue from the sale of Lands or Tenements, are void; but money or stock may be given by will, if not directed to be paid out of the produce of the Sale of Land or Tenements, or to be laid out in Land.

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(to whom all Orders for Money are requested to be addressed.)

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And at the Office, No. 15, Exeter Hall, Strand, London.

THE PLAN.

I.

THAT the designation of this Society be "THE LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY," for establishing Schools, and circulating the Holy Scriptures in Ireland.

II.

Each Subscriber of One Guinea annually, or upwards, shall be a Member.

III.

Each Subscriber of Ten Guineas, or upwards, shall be a Member for Life.

IV.

Each Subscriber of Five Guineas annually, or of Twenty Guineas at one time, shall be entitled to attend and Vote at all Meetings of the Committee.

V.

An Executor paying a Bequest of Fifty Pounds, or upwards, shall be a Member for Life.

VI.

A Committee shall be annually appointed, consisting of Thirty Laymen, resident in or near London, who shall conduct the business of the Society, and appoint all Officers; those Twenty-four Members who most frequently attend during the Year, shall be proposed to the Annual Meeting for Re-election.

VII.

Every Clergyman or Dissenting Minister, who is a Member of the Society, shall be entitled to attend and Vote at all the Meetings of the Committee.

VIII.

The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held in the month of May, on such day as may be deemed expedient; when the Treasurer and Committee shall be chosen, the Accounts presented, and the proceedings of the foregoing Year reported.

AT the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY, held at Exeter Hall, Strand, on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1833,

THE MOST HONOURABLE

The MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY,

President, in the Chair,

The

The Rev. John Hatchard commenced with Prayer. Report having been read by the Secretary, the following Resolutions, moved and seconded by the individuals whose names are prefixed, were unanimously adopted.

By the Right Hon. the EARL OF WINCHELSEA;

And the Rev. J. W. CUNNINGHAM, M.A. Vicar of Harrow.

That the Report and Statement of Accounts just read, be received and printed, under the direction of the Committee.

By the Rev. JOHN MORISON, D.D. of Chelsea;
And J. E. GORDON, Esq.

That this Meeting hears, with much pleasure, the gratifying progress which this Society has made in its great work, during the past year; and gratefully attributing every measure of success to the blessing of Him from whom all holy desires, all good

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