402 TIMEHRI. 
The Hon, N. Darnell Davis gave notice of motion as 
follows :— 
“ That he would move at the meeting in January, that the following 
be added to the Society’s Bye-Laws, Chapter [X., Book Committee and 
Library, Clause 1, at end of Clause, 
“ The Committee so ele€ted shall at its first meeting appoint a Chair- 
man and Vice-Chairman, but no member of the Committee shall be so 
ele&ted unless he shall first have intimated to the Committee or to some 
member thereof his willingness to accept one or the other of such offices 
if he be elected thereto.” 
The President read the following letter from Mr. 
Quelch, which he remarked was written before one of 
those which had been read at the previous General 
Meeting :— . 
Chicago, O&. 15th, 1893. 
L. M. Hill, Esq., 
Hon. Secty., R. A. & C. Society. 
Dear Sir, -Since writing to you tor report last month, I have been 
notified through Mr. Rodway of the very kindly a& of the Society in 
passing a vote of thanks to me for the performance of the duties which 
I undertook in accepting from the Government the position of Com- 
missioner for the colony. It is very gratifying to me to know that the 
way in which I have tri}d to perform my work has met with the appro- 
bation of the Society /and though even now my mission is by no 
means finished, I must state that I have throughout striven, so far as 
I was able, whether by pen, mouth or att, to do the best that was 
possible to me for the colony whose interests were entrusted to me, 
I need hardly assure the Society that I shall strive for the remainder of 
my time to keep the record as complete—the vote of thanks is but I 
take it, a mark of their confidence that the interests of the colony will 
not suffer in my hands. As such I thank them for it. 
I am sorry that having met with the approbation of the Society in 
the method and performance of work, I have been compelled lately to 
write as though wanting more funds. I say sorry because the request 
for money is but seldom one that leaves a pleasing impression, And 
yet I would point out that | have been asking for nothing more than the 
maintenance of the conditions under which I agreed to accept the 
position of Commissioner. Besides the $10,000 which were placed to 
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