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nistressed or the aged part of such an adventurous,
active, and useful part of the community. A fund
was therefore early raised for this purpose, by a-
rery small tax on the wages of the seamen em-
ployed in the place, which was cheerfully paid, as*
they themselves in the course of Providence micrht
one day be thankful for the benefits arising from
the trilling deduction which had been taken from
them.
This was one source from which the fund was
supplied, and by whatever others, as donations,
ivc. it might be augmented. None has been more
regularly conducted, has given more relief, is more
generally useful, or more highly respected. By
the exertions of the fraternity, the surveys of the
river, the placing of buoys and beacons in proper
situations, and the whole business connected with
a populous, improving, commercial, maritime town,
lias been greatly promoted and improved.
Their place of meeting was for a long time in a
house near the Craig, which did not afford sufficient
accommodation. When they found that some-
thing might be expended for their own comfort, a
piece of ground was bought from the late Admi-
ral Laird, and a very neat hall erected, containing
a large room for general meetings, and smaller
ones for committees, and preserving records, be-
sides a very convenient house on the ground
storey for their officer, who is always a respectable
member of the fraternity, though perhaps not so
fortunate in the world.
From the respectability of the seamen's fraterni-
ty, the boxmaster is necessarily a member of every
public institution about the town.