REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



AT THE CLOSE OP THE 



TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION. 



The retiring Council do not consider it necessary 

 to present to the Society any very lengthened Report, 

 inasmuch as the Report of a Sub-Committee to inquire 

 into the state of the Finances, has already been printed 

 and distributed ; to which the Council beg to direct your 

 attentive consideration, both as regards the increasing 

 Debt on the Proprietary Account, and the ordinary ex- 

 penditure of the Society: subjects which have caused 

 much anxiety to the Council, and for the removal of 

 which a Plan has been devised which awaits the sanction 

 of this General Meeting, and which it is confidently 

 hoped the Members will respond to, not only by a liberal 

 Subscription, but by every proper effort to obtain that 

 increase of Members and Subscribers, which so large 

 and populous a district ought to furnish. 



The Debt upon the Proprietary Account, which at 

 the close of the last Session amounted to £391. 13s. 4d. 

 amounts now, by accumulation of interest, to the sum 

 of £411. lis. 4d. while the Debt upon the Ordinary 



