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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of the Providence Athenæum, to Which Are Prefixed the Charter, Constitution and by-Laws, and an Historical Sketch of the Institution T This Town House was situated on the lot now occupied by the public school house on Meeting-street. The records of the old Providence Library contain the following particulars concerning this fire The books being arrived from Eng-f land, neat and proper cases were erected in the Council Chamber, in the Town House in Providence, for receiving them and being placed in their proper order, the Library was opened, and the books received and returned by the proprietors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.