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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. 8
This desirable result having been accomplished, a meeting was held in Detroit, July 20th, 1865, at which a committee of seven were selected and appointed, composed of Messrs. C. C. Trowbridge, John Owen, J. F. Conover, T. W. Palmer, B. F. H. Witherell, John Robertson, and J. W. Tillman, to which the whole matter was referred, with instructions to prepare and report at a subsequent meeting a plan for organization, and also to present the names of suitable persons to fill the positions or offices which they might recommend, and with power to call the next meeting.
On the 11th of August, 1865, a meeting was held, at which the committee submitted their report, recommending the raising by subscription throughout the State of $50, 000, and at the same time presented a plan of organization and labor, naming as a board of directors for the management of the business of the association:
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