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Title: Program of exercises at the dedication of a soldiers monument erected by the First Connecticut light battery, the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut volunteers monument association at the Broadway park, New Haven, June 16, 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: First light battery and the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut volunteers monument association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: New Haven, Conn. Soldiers' monument. (from old catalog) Connecticut -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: (New Haven, Conn., Press of the Price, Lee & Adkins co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o warrant proceeding withthe plan, and it was abandoned. During the year 1904 the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Asso-ciation gave up the idea of building a monument at Hartford andjoined with the three veteran organizations already named for thepurpose of carrying out the plan of erecting a joint monument. A joint committee of the four organizations held meetings, andfinally at a meeting of the executive committees held at NewHaven, June 7, 1904, a corporation was formed under the statutelaws of Connecticut with articles of association as follows: Article 1. The name of said corporation shall be The First LightBattery and the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut. Volunteers Monu-ment Association. Aet. 2. The purposes for which said corporation is formed are thefollowing, to wit: To receive appropriations made by the General Assembly of the Stateof Connecticut for the erection of memorial tablets or monuments by saidBattery and Regiments, or either of them, and to locate and erect such
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Gen. Edwin S. Greeley COLONKI, TliNTir CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERSIliESlUENT OF MONUMENT ASSOCIATION 13 memorial tablets or monuments within the State of Connecticut, in accord-ance with the provisions of the resolutions of said General Assembly mak-ing such appropriations^ and to make contracts for the same and to paybills contracted therefor, and to make and carry out such arrangementsand incur such expense as said corporation may determine for the dedi-cation of the same, and to receive and expend such contributions as maybe made to defray the expenses of the foregoing objects, and to disburse thefunds received for the general purposes for which it is organized, and tomake by-laws relative to its officers; the admission of members; and suchother matters as may be deemed necessary to carry out the purposes ofthe corporation. At a meeting of the incorporators held at New Haven on the 7th day of Jnne, 1904, the articles of incorporation were approved, by-laws were adopted, and the followin

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