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in by this Society, and was the subject of the ap- 

 pointment of a special committee to take charge of 

 the proceedings. 



At the quarterly meeting held October loth, 

 1 87 1, the death of Mr. Robert Bage, who had been 

 Treasurer of the Society for twenty-seven years, 

 was announced, and special resolutions were adopted 

 and entered upon the Minutes, expressive of the 

 regret of the Society at the loss they had sus- 

 tained thereby. Subsequently it was decided to 

 mark their appreciation of the services he had ren- 

 dered to the Society by presenting his family with 

 a piece of plate, the cost of which was supplied by 

 subscriptions raised among the members. During 

 the three years following, the Society appears to 

 have pursued the even tenor of its way, no incident 

 worthy of special record having occurred in that 

 interval. But in 1874 the Executive Committee 

 desired to change the method of relieving transients 

 by supplying them with tickets for meals and lodg- 

 ings, instead of giving them money as had before 

 been the practice, and they then inaugurated a more 

 complete system of dealing with such cases. 



The benefits expected to accrue to emigrants 

 through the establishment of the British Protective 

 Emigrant Board in 1849, to which reference has 

 previously been made, received the close attention 

 of this Society, and although the Board was ulti- 

 mately dissolved, the work it had undertaken to 



