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March 15th Society convened. After the opening of the meeting,
Cowles, Barnes and Perkins declaimed, Bridgman & Crocker
read criticisms, King and Allen delivered original declamations,
& French read a Composition; After which the Tariff
Question was debated Simpson and McLane on the affirmative,
Eldridge and Holmes on the negative; the debate was decided
in the affirmative. The persons proposed were voted in,
and it was also voted that the thanks of the Society
be presented to Cleaveland for his present to the library,
and that McLane should present them. The parts for
the next meeting were assigned, and the Society adjourned.
Attest F.W. Crocker Secretary

March 22, Society convened. After the usual preliminary exercises
Holmes, Cummings, Perkins, and Allen declaimed; Cowles, Evans &
Crocker read compositions; McLane & French delivered original
declamations; Carter & Swift read Criticisms & Thomas & Bartlett
delivered a Forensic disputation on the Question whether Privateering
was justifiable or not, Thomas maintained the affirmative
Bartlett the negative. E. Smith was admitted a member of this
Society and signed the Constitution. Voted that the meetings
begin at Seven O' clock for the future. The parts for the next
meeting were given out & the Society adjourned.
Attest F.W. Crocker. Sec.