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There was no other business transact.
At a meeting of the Ladies General Committee
of the Sydney Female Refuge held on Friday
the 4th if October 1866.
Present
Mrs Graham Mrs Jos. Thompson
Mrs John Thompson Mrs Reid
Mrs Mills Mrs Speer
Mrs Smith Mrs Widen
Mrs Murnin Mrs Hayes
and the Secretary.
[crossed out] Minutes of former Meeting Daily
Journal Tabular and Sub Committees reports were read.
The sum of £69.10.6 was paid in
by some of the ladies which with the former amounts
make £216.17.11. The Secretary mentioned that
Mrs Allen and [?] expects a few pounds from the
country but that the cards were not [?] returned.
The secretary submitted for the
Ladies consideration the suggestion that a family
Bible should be presented to Miss Aitken [ for crossed out] as so small token of the Committee's appreciation of her
kindness in reading for the benefit of the Refuge
by which no funds were augmented in
the amount of £70.
Resolved that a Bible be bought and
the Ladies agreed to [pay crossed out] divide the sum equally
among them.
The Matron was desired to order
the groceries alternately from Misses Graham
and McGregor. At present they use both.
Last month at the General Committee