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either to take the responsibility upon myself to meet the proposition of Mr Boudinott?, or to suffer the paper to stop, --and believing that a suspension of the paper at that juncture would prove detrimental to the best interests of the nation, I could not for a moment think of seeing it stopped; therefore I gave Mr [[Boudinott?] an assurance that I would present the subject for your consideration, and if the General Council should refuse to allow him the one hundred dollars per annum as an increase of his salary, that I would hold myself individually bound to him for the amount, and under this assurance Mr Boudinott? agreed to continue in the editorial department; I now submit for your consideration to determine whether the engagement I made with Mr Boudinott? as above stated will be approved by the adoption of a resolution to embrace it, or not.

I am, respectfully

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