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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page xl

INAUGURAL MEETING of the Kent Archaeological Society

the results of their mission may be deemed satisfactory, and obtain your approval and confirmation.     "CAMDEN, President."

   Viscount SYDNEY (the Lord Lieutenant), in moving the first Resolution, said:—
   Although I am not the right man in the right place to take a leading part in the proceedings of an Archaeological Society, yet, however unworthy I may be, I trust to profit by the learning and experience of the distinguished men I see around me. I may, without fear of contradiction, remark that you have commenced operations this day most auspiciously; and I trust that you will adopt the Report unanimously. It shadows forth 
a prosperous future. Not only is our list of Subscribers numerically large, but many of them are distinguished by learning and profound Archaeological knowledge. The advantage that the county of Kent will derive from the existence of such a Society as this will be found in the opening of men's minds to the observation and knowledge of what our ancestors have in former days effected, and in the improvement in taste which we may anticipate from the development and investigation of historical remains, abounding as they do to such an unlimited extent in this county.
   I think you will agree with me that our gratitude is due to those gentlemen who have taken so much trouble and interest in the formation of the Society, and to whom the county is assuredly much indebted. The Report of their proceedings, and the Rules for the government of the Society, which have just been read to us (and which, of course, can be modified, if necessary, at any future Meeting) appear to me to meet the views and requirements of the Society, and to merit your unanimous adoption,—a result which I fully anticipate in proposing the first Resolution.
   "That the Report just read, be adopted, with the Rules for the government of the Society which are appended thereto,"
   [Carried unanimously.]

   Earl AMHERST, in proposing the second Resolution, said:—
   I have the honour to propose a Resolution which adds several names to the list of Vice-Presidents. There are also one or two

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