PROPOSALS

That P. S. and A. N. be immediately invited into the Junto.

That all new members be qualified by the four qualifications, and all

the old ones take it.

That these queries copied at the beginning of a book, be read

distinctly each meeting, a pause between each while one might fill and

drink a glass of wine.

That if they cannot all be gone through in one night, we begin the

next where we left off, only, such as particularly regard the funds to

be read every night.

That it be not hereafter the duty of any member to bring queries, but

left to his discretion.

That an old declamation be, without fail, read every night when there

is no new one.

That Mr. Brientnal's Poem on the Junto be read over once a month, and

hum'd in consort[2] by as many as can hum it.

[Footnote 2: Concert was thus spelt in the beginning of the last

century. See many examples in the Tatler, etc.]

That once a month in spring, summer and fall, the Junto meet in the

afternoon in some proper place across the river for bodily exercise.

That in the aforesaid book be kept minutes thus:

_Friday, June 30, 1732._

Present A, B, C, D, E, F, etc.

Figure denotes the queries answered.

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