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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

N. F. Williams, William P. Whyte, Thomas
Wilson, Rt. Rev. W. R. Whittingham, Samuel
G. Wyman, S. Teackle Wallis, John White,
Nathaniel Williams, Thomas Whitridge, James
S. Waters, Thomas Winans, Otho H. Williams,
William H. Young.

Preamble con-
tinued.

And whereas, the trust created by said letter
first above recited, was duly accepted by all the
persons to whom said letter was addressed, ex-
cept William Prescott Smith, Esq., as appears by
the reply of those so accepting, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy.

LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

BALTIMORE, February 19th, 1857.
To GEORGE PEABODY, Esq.,

Letter of ac-
ceptance.

Sir: — The undersigned acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, addressed to us on twelfth of this
month, and with a grateful sense of this evidence
of your confidence and regard, accept the office of
receivers and dispensers of the munificent fund
which you therein dedicate to the erection and en-
dowment of an Institute in the city of Baltimore,
on behalf of those for whom this great benefac-
tion is designed, we offer you most cordial thanks,
with our admiration of the noble and generous
heart which could conceive and execute so com-
prehensive a scheme for the improvement and
gratification of thousands, unknown and unborn.
We will endeavor to manifest a just appreciation
of our obligations to you. by prompt and unre-
mitted efforts to carry out the views and sugges-
tions contained in your letter, and we earnestly
hope you may be permitted for many coming
years, to have the satisfaction of witnessing the
accomplishment of all you propose and desire, in
founding so splendid a monument of enlightened
philanthrophy and exalted patriotism.
John M. Gordon, Samuel W. Smith, Chauncy
Brooks, Wm. F. Murdoch, Enoch Pratt, J. Ma-
son Campbell, Geo. W. Brown, Galloway Ches-
ton, Geo. P. Tiffany, Chas. Bradenbaugh, Edw.
M. Greenway, Jr., Wm. C. Shaw, Wm. E.
Mayhew, John P. Kennedy, Chas. J. M. Eaton,
Thomas Swann, George Brown, John B. Morris,