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Excerpt from Report of Johnstown Flood Finance Committee
It having been proposed by the Pittsburgh Relief Committee to furnish portable houses, fitted up as comfortable homes, upon condition that the Finance Committee would receive and distribute the same properly, on June 17th this offer was accepted, and a Committee was appointed to act in conjunction with General Hastings and Dr. Ben jamin Lee to determine the location in which houses might properly be erected Where applicants had not approved sites of their own. A form of application was approved and ordered to be printed, and Messrs. H. W. Storey, Thomas Matthews, and B. F. Speedy were em ployed to act as a Committee to take applications for the houses, to attend to the receiving and delivering of them, with power to employ assistants, etc. Mr. Speedy being in ill-health was unable to serve, and his place was filled by D. H. Kinkead. Mr. Matthews retired after serving for a period of one month, and this onerous and unpopu lar duty was faithfully discharged by Mr. Storey and Mr. Kinkead and their assistants under the direction of the Finance Committee. 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.
