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At‘a meeting of subscribers and friends of the scheme on MarCh l, 1869, several resolutions were passed, the chiefones being:

1. "That, if the Presbyterian bodies will guarantee the sum of £3,000 currency, this meeting will guarantee to provide a like amount for the purpose of erecting a suitable building and furnishing the same in all its departments, the management to be under joint control."

2. "Resolved that we proceed immediately with our own building and that the number of trustees be seven." r

These resolutions indicate clearly that, while the Wesleyans were willing to unite with other denominations in this project,

they realized the urgency of the situation so took steps to proceed with the building without delay.

An "Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist School of Charlottetown" was passed in the Legislature April 19, 1869; and reads, in part, as follows:

"Whereas it is desirable for the efficient management of the temporal affairs of the Wesleyan Methodist School of Charlottetown that its Trustees be an incorporate body: Be it therefore enacted by the Administrator of the Government, Council and Assembly as follows:

That the Rev. Henry Pope, ex—officio, and his successor, Robert Longworth, Simon Davies, Thomas Walker Dodd, William. Eddison Dawson, George Robert Beer, William Heard and William Crilly Bourke, and their successors in office, shall be and are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate, under and by the name of ”The Trustees of the Wesleyan School of Charlottetown,” etc., etc.,....."

Plans and specifications were agreed upon and tenders for the Work called for, Mr. Thomas Alley, grandfather of the late Dr. Gordon T. Alley, was appointed superintendent of construction.

The ladies assisted by holding teas and a bazaar, the latter

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