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THE

EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

AMERICAN SOCIETY

FOR

Colonizing the Free People of Colour

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

WASHINGTON CITY.

1825.

JAMES C. DUNN, PRINTER; BRIDGE-STRRET, GEORGETOWN.

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, was held in the Supreme Court Room, in the Capitol, Washington City, on the 19th of February.

The audience was highly respectable, and the number present, unusually great. The attendance of the venerable Lafayette and several of the Judges of the Supreme Court, afforded high gratification.

Wm. H. Fitzhugh, Esq. one of the Vice-Presidents of the Institution, took the chair; when the Annual Report was read by Mr. Gurley.

Robert Field Stockton, Esq. then rose, and after presenting the Society with a copy of the Constitution of the New Jersey Auxiliary Society, together with a series of Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors, addressed the meeting in an appropriate and eloquent manner.

G. W. P. Custis, Esq. then offered, and supported by some very energetic and interesting remarks, the following resolution; which was unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That General Lafayette be appointed a perpetual Vice President of this Society.

When this resolution was read, the General expressed in a few words, the gratification he felt when invited to attend the Eighth Anniversary

Meeting of this Society; towards which he had ever felt the highest respect and affection. He would candidly say, that to be chosen a Member of the Society, would give him great pleasure, and be very consonant to the principles of all his life.

On motion of General Walter Jones,

Resolved unanimously, That this Society are deeply pe netrated with regret, for the loss they have been called to sustain in the recent death of one of their Vice Presidents, General Robert Goodloe Harper; and that his distinguished worth, and especially his zeal and ability in the defence and promotion of the objects of this Institution, shall be held in affectionate and perpetual remembrance.

Mr. Gurley then addressed the meeting, and offered a resolution, which he withdrew at the particular request of one of the Managers.

The following resolutions were then offered, and adopted without objection.

By the Rev. Dr. Laurie,

Resolved, That this Society acknowledge with gratitude the important aid it has received from various auxihary Institutions.

By Charles Carter Lee, Esq.

Resolved, That this Society entertain a grateful sense of the zeal and fidelity with which the Managers have discharged their duties during the past year.

The following Gentlemen were then elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing year.

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