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ries, by making it read two Secretaries in place of 

 Secretary and Assistant Secretary, which was not 

 successful ; but a motion to reduce the number of 

 the Stewards from six to four, made at the same 

 meeting, was adopted. 



In January, 1835, the Treasurer's report, showing 

 a debit balance of $264.06 against the Charitable 

 Fund, a committee of three was appointed to devise 

 means for replenishing that fund ; but at a subse- 

 quent special meeting held in the following month 

 the committee reported that having referred to the 

 Constitution " they discovered that the only con- 

 stitutional power they possessed of enlarging the 

 charitable or disposable fund consisted in obtaining 

 new members," and the matter was then dropped. 

 An informal resolution, however, was passed by the 

 meeting to the effect that each member should ex- 

 ert his influence with those of his acquaintances who 

 were eligible to obtain their consent to be proposed 

 as members of the Society at their next meeting. 

 Following up this idea a committee of five was ap- 

 pointed at a special meeting held March, 1835, " to 

 collect and present at a future meeting of the Society 

 the names of Englishmen residents and such others as 

 are eligible to become members of the Society," and 

 this committee appears to have done its work well, 

 for at the next regular meeting, held April loth, 

 sixteen new members were proposed and afterwards 

 elected. At a special meeting held the week fol- 



