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And that in addition such committee shall be em- 

 powered to appoint a trusty person to visit and re- 

 port to them who are and who are not proper ob- 

 jects for the relief of the Society, and to remuner- 

 ate the said person for his trouble in making such 

 report," which was adopted at the next meeting, 

 held in the following April, and this was the initia- 

 tory step taken to provide a paid Almoner, an office 

 which, with one temporary interruption, has since 

 been continued, with marked advantage to the in- 

 terests of the Society. 



The birth of the Prince of Wales, in 1841, called 

 forth a motion to give a ball in honor of the event, 

 and a committee was appointed to make the neces- 

 sary arrangements. No record of the success at- 

 tending the ball is given, except from a paragraph 

 in the annual report of the Charitable Committee 

 we gather that a surplus of $700 was realized from it. 



In 1844 an unusual event occurred in the abrupt 

 withdrawal of the President of this Society from a 

 dinner given by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 

 at which he was an invited guest, and which, from 

 the prominence given to it in the minutes, would 

 seem to have produced considerable feeling and ex- 

 citement at the time. It is referred to here, not for 

 the purpose of reviving an incident probably long 

 since forgotten, or of provoking resentment towards 

 a sister society, with whom' cordial relations now 

 exist, but as a matter of history, and also as illus- 



