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					<orgName key="org0034.ocp">Connecticut Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland
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					<title type="main">The Occom Circle</title>
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				<publisher>Trustees of Dartmouth College</publisher>
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				<note type="abstract">The Board votes to send C.J. Smith to Europe to collect funds, to ask
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