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Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of Middletown, R. I: From Its Organization, in 1743, to the Centennial Year, 1876 At a meeting of the Town Council of Middletown, held in said town, on Monday, December 18th, A.D. 1876: Resolved, That the Town Council would hereby respectfully acknowledge the condescension and labors of the Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, in preparing an historical sketch of the town of Middletown, from the date of its formation, and do further hereby extend to him there unfeigned thanks for the same. Resolved, That the Town Clerk of Middletown be and he is hereby authorized and directed at the proper expense of this town, to have printed and bound in a suitable manner, 500 copies of the Historical Sketch of the Town of Middletown, as recently prepared by the Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, and to place fifty copies thereof at the disposal of the historian, the said Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, to file one copy thereof with the Records in the Town Clerk's Office, one copy with the Secretary of State, one copy with the Librarian of Congress, to forward one copy thereof to the clerk of each town or city in this State, to retain fifty copies thereof for the use of such historical writers or collectors as may hereafter apply for the same, and to hold the remainder of said copies for distribution among the citizens, tax-payers and inhabitants of this town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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