184° TIMEHRI. 
The Secretary read the following report of the Colum- 
bian Exposition Committee :— "4 
Georgetown, January rath, 1893. 
To the President and Members 
of the R. A. & C. Society. 
Gentlemen,—On behalf of the Columbian Exposition Committee, I 
have the honour to report that His Excellency the Governor has been ; 
pleased to appoint Mr, John Ioseph Quelch, B.Sc., to be sole Commis. 
sioner to represent the Colony at the Columbian Exposition, and also 
that his Commission has been received. 
I have further to report that the Exhibits are in course of being — 
packed, and will be sent by the Canadian Steamer * Taymouth Castle” _ a 
on or about the 21st of this month. A few small things will probably 
be sent on later, but the bulk of the exhibits will go by this opportunity. 
The party of Indians will go in the care of the Revd. Joseph Keelan 4 
about June, as it will be too cold for them at an earlier date. Materials 
for their dwellings will however be taken, and erefted by the time the 
Exposition opens, 
I have, &c., 
J. RODWAY, Secretary, 
Columbian Exposition Committee. 
The Treasurer laid over the annexed annual state-— 
ment of accounts for 1892, consideration of which was 
postponed until the following meeting, when they would 
have been audited. 
Mr. Thos. Watt brought forward a motion for a Com- — 
mittee to consider the desirability of amending the Con- 
stitution of the Society. 
Mr. Watt said that since giving notice he had found 
that on the statement that an essential principle of the 
constitution was the total exclusion of political questions 
depended the faé&t that Her Majesty the Queen became 
Patroness and the word “ Royal” was incorporated with 
the name of the Society. He would therefore ask to _ 
