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    <title>[Articles of the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor]</title>
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    <title>Whereas it is found by experience that this province is not adapted for raising sheep</title>
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  <note>Letter to subscribers on p. 12, dated 1754, reads: "You have herewith a printed copy of the Articles of the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor, and a list of the names of the gentlemen who continue to promote the same by their subscriptions."</note>
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