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BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 6, 1877. 



A duly notified stated meeting was holden at 1 1 o'clock, President 

 Parkman in the chair. 



The President read the following address. 



Address of President Parkman. 



During the last year the working of the body of laws, adopted 

 in the year that preceded, has been put to the test. The result 

 has been all that could be wished. The new order of things seems 

 to have given universal satisfaction. The advantages of the most 

 important change, that affecting the powers and functions of the 

 Executive Committee, are beginning, at length, to be recognized. 

 This Committee, composed, in part, of persons in whom the 

 Society has placed its highest confidence, and on whom it has 

 conferred its highest offices ; and in part of persons chosen by it 

 for this special purpose, and subject to removal by its annual vote, 

 supphes a want which has long been felt. The duty of the Com- 

 mittee is not only to watch over the interests of the Society, and 

 make such suggestions as its welfare may seem to require, but also 

 to receive the complaints of members, consider all causes of dis- 

 satisfaction which may be brought before it, and take such action 

 as may best promote general harmony and good feeling. It provides 

 members with a source of relief from grievances which hitherto 

 have had no means of redress. 



