Box 2

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Volume 3 has the Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers, giving a detailed account of the first settlement at Cape Palmas. It reflects the steps taken to raise funds, even to the extent that each member of the Board sold a certain number of Oratorio tickets for the benefit of the colonization project. Numerous other reports throw light on the early history of the movement and the colony.

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Volume 4 includes the Seventh Annual Report, which discusses the social and economic problems at Cape Palmas, as do all succeeding reports. A circular distributed among the people of Baltimore in 1841 seems to indicate that some colonization business was transacted at saloons. This book concludes with the Ordinance providing for the maintenance of "Public Worship" in Liberia.

Content Description Volume 5, like all the minute books, has a vast amount of correspondence relating to colonial affairs, reports, and instructions that are not included in the regular letter books. There is also a copy of the articles of agreement between the Colonization Society and the people of Maryland in Liberia in 1854, when self-government became an actuality. The report of the Managers on the 25th anniversary of the Society reviews past history and congratulates the members on the success of their...

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Volume 6 covers the period after the active work of the Society ceased and shows the gradual decline of enthusiasm, the less frequent meetings, and the slow disintegration of the organization. The final records deal with the disposition of small sums in the treasury.

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Volume 1 includes some financial accounts.

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Volume 2 duplicates the record during 1833.