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day of those months, the number of the Stewards 

 increased from four to six, the fine for absence at 

 the Annual Dinner and at the quarterly meetings 

 had been abolished and a set of By-Laws framed for 

 the government of the Society, which have been 

 maintained up to this time substantially as they 

 were originally drawn. 



At the quarterly meeting held January loth, 

 1825, the following additional article to the Consti- 

 tution was unanimously adopted : 



" No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, 

 unless such alteration shall have been proposed at 

 a previous quarterly meeting," and on January loth, 

 1828, a further amendment was made providing for 

 the election of one or more physicians in addition 

 to the other officers. 



In the previous year [1827] the then President, 

 Mr. Thomas Dixon, received an invitation from the 

 St. Andrew's Society to be present at their annual 

 banquet, but which, owing to his absence in Canada, 

 he was compelled to decline. A similar invitation 

 was given the following year by the Friendly Sons 

 of St. Patrick, which was accepted. From the 

 prominence given in the minutes to these incidents 

 it would appear that this was the commencement of 

 a practice, since so happily followed, of inviting the 

 Presidents of each of these sister Societies to be 

 present at the annual banquets given by the others. 



About this time the Treasurer of the Society was 



