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the people of the several states providing for these objects of charity; but the existing condition of affairs here, the financial condition of the state, which to my personal knowledge is now very much changed & deprived - the absence of any legislative body to correct existing evils & derive ways & means - all continue to justify me in urgently commending Dr. Brice & his application to your