REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



AT THE CLOSE OF TIfP. 



THIRTIETH SESSION. 



It again becomes the duty of the retiring Council to 

 review the Transactions of the past Session, and to furnish 

 a Report of their proceedings during their term of office. 

 In adverting to the events of the Thirtieth Session, the 

 Council are enabled to address the Members and Sub- 

 scribers in the language of congratulation, on the improved 

 state of the Finances of the Society. The Report of the 

 Thirtieth Session will, in this respect, present a striking 

 contrast to the desponding tone of those of previous Ses- 

 sions, which year after year recorded the languishing state 

 of the Funds of the Society. 



In the Report of the Twenty-ninth Session, the re- 

 tiring Council felt it incumbent on them to press particu- 

 larly upon the attention of the Society the state of the 

 Proprietary Debt, augmented by accumulations at Com- 

 pound Interest, and the increasing amount of the Ordinary 

 Debt. Soon after the election of the Council for the past 

 Session, a Sub-Committee was appointed for the purpose of 

 collecting opinions as to the practicability of making altera- 

 tions in any of the Laws of the Society which appeared to 



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