At a meeting of the Committee of Exigencies, Sept. 23, 1858

Voted, That Rev. J. L. Taylor be requested to carry through the press the Address of Rev. Dr. Bacon, delivered at the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Theological Seminary; and also to prepare a volume which shall give a full account of the said Celebration; the manuscript of the volume to be submitted to the Trustees, for their approval, before publication.

At a meeting of the Trustees of Phillips Academy, March 31st, 1859, the Treasurer of the Board, Rev. J. L. Taylor, having submitted a Report of the labor devolved on him by a vote of the Committee of Exigencies, Sept. 23, 1858, in preparing a Memorial of the late Semi-Centennial Celebration in the Theological Seminary, from which Report it appears, that, in addition to his own care in the work, the entire mass of manuscript presented has been carefully read by Professor Park, and by Messrs. Aiken and Jackson of this Board, and also a large portion of it by the Clerk of the Board, Mr. S. H. Taylor, who unite in recommending its publication, — it was

Voted, That, on the recommendation aforesaid, the Memorial thus prepared by Mr. Taylor, be printed and published under his supervision.