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				<note type="abstract">The Trustees resolve that they have never had, and do not desire,
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				<p> At a regular meeting of the <orgName key="org0115.ocp">board of Trustees of <orgName
							key="org0037.ocp">Dartmouth College</orgName></orgName><lb/> holden at said College
					the <date when="1789-05-07">seventh day of May Anno Dom 17<del>9</del>89</date>.<lb/>
					Representations having been made to this board that apprehensions<lb/> have arisen in the
					minds of some persons that moneys collected in <placeName key="place0090.ocp"
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							<orig>Me&slong;s.<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi></orig>
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						<abbr>&amp;</abbr>
						<expan>and</expan>
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					<hi rend="indent">Resolved that <orgName key="org0115.ocp">this board</orgName> have never
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						<expan>and</expan>
					</choice> benefit of <orgName key="org0037.ocp">said College</orgName><lb/> but on the
					most critical examination relative thereto we are convinced<lb/>
					<orgName key="org0115.ocp">this board</orgName> have ever considered themselves as having
					no concern with<lb/> the application of the said monies but that they were subject to<lb/>
					the application of the late Reverend <choice>
						<abbr>Doct.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr>
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							<abbr>E.</abbr>
							<expan>Eleazar</expan>
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						<abbr>&amp;</abbr>
						<expan>and</expan>
					</choice> them only. Nor have<lb/> they to their knowledge any interest in their hands on
					which<lb/> revenues have arisen to them as the effect of monies laid o<del>t</del>ut by<lb/>
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					as aforesaid. And<lb/> should any such in future arise it is the sense <choice>
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						<expan>and</expan>
					</choice> intention of<lb/>
					<orgName key="org0115.ocp">this board</orgName> that such revenues be applied by <persName
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						</choice><lb/> A true copy Attest.<lb/>
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									<abbr>Wm</abbr>
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								<abbr>Sec.<hi rend="superscript">y</hi></abbr>
								<expan>Secretary</expan>
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				<trailer> Vote of <orgName key="org0115.ocp">Trustees</orgName><lb/>
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