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Sectitute the Society, adopt or frame a code of hws 
; and Regulations, and eleét Office-bearers. 
3, That each of the said Subscribers shall be furnished 
a with a printed copy of the “ Proposed Laws and Regu- 
- Iations” of the Society, with a view to his approving 
i of the same, or suggesting amendments thereon or 
_ additions thereto at a meeting to be called for that 
purpose. 
The “ Proposed Laws,” of which the Society possesses 
the original draft, are in the handwriting of Mr. CAMPBELL, 
a and appear to have been framed on those of the Botanical 
_ Society of Edinburgh, in the establishment of which Mr. 
‘ CAMPBELL took an active part. 
_ The prospeétus was well received, and on the gth of 
_ March, 1844, an advertisement appeared in the Royal 
’ Gazette requesting the subscribers to the proposed 
Agricultural and Commercial Society to meet on Monday, 
the 18th, at the Old Court House, at two o’clock in the 
g afternoon, to adopt the necessary measures for consti- 
4 tuting the Society. Accordingly about forty ‘ highly 
_  respeétable” persons, under the chairmanship of Sir 
yy MicHaeL M’Turk, met and passed a series of resolu- 
tions, constituting those present and the other subscribers 
to the prospectus as original members—appointing a 
committee of ten to frame and arrange the rules— 
agreeing to an application to the Legislature for a grant 
of the Old Colonial Hospital building—and fixing the 
12th of April for another meeting. The Governor of the 
colony for the time being was nominated as Patron, and 
the Committee consisted of :—the Hons. Sir M. MCTuRK 
and WM. ARRINDELL, Messrs. D. M’DONALD, A. Mac- 
RAE, (Dr.) WM. RANKEN, CHAS. BENJAMIN, W. BRUCE 
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