60 Anniversary Address. 



from voting through a misunderstanding as to the effect of the 

 first motion, and it was agreed that another vote should be taken, 

 Yes or No. for a change on the present system, when the negative 

 was carried by a large majority.'^ 



Sir Walter Elliot also moved that Mr. W. B. Boyd, and Mr. 

 Muirhead be added to the Committee on the organization of the 

 work of the Club ; and that the Committee be requested to pre- 

 pare a Eeport, to be printed and circulated among the members, 

 with the view of coming to a decision on the subject. The 

 motion having been seconded by Mr. Bigge, was unanimously 

 agreed to. 



New members to the number of 23, who had been proposed 

 during the year, inclusive of those nominated at Selkirk, were 

 now elected, and their names were added to the list of the Club. 



George P. Hughes, Esq., of Middleton Hall, Wooler, was 

 elected President for next year. Mr Hughes is a member of the 

 Club of 26 years' standing, and has on several occasions been the 

 Club's representative at the meetings of the British Association. 



The meetings of the Club for next year were fixed for Leitholm 

 and Eccles, Holy Island, Aberlady, St. Mary's Loch, Wooler and 

 Cheviots, and Berwick. 



The President's Address was then delivered. There was time 

 for the reading only of part of the Haddington Meeting, the 

 whole of the Jedburgh meeting, and the conclusion. 



In the morning, and in the afternoon when members were 

 assembling for the business meeting, numerous objects of interest 

 laid out on tables in the room, were examined and explained. 



With the permission of the Town Council of Selkirk, Mr Eod- 

 ger, the Senior Town Clerk, exhibited a bundle of Charters 

 granted by James V., confirming the privileges of the Town. 

 The older Charters, granted by David I., had been destroyed 

 during an invasion of the English. The documents exhibited 

 were : — 



1 . Charter by King James V. to the Burgesses and Community 

 of the Burgh of Selkirk, confirming to them the said Burgh, with 



*It has been ascertained that restricting the printing of copies to one 

 number for each menaber, copies for Societies, etc., being prepared as 

 usual, would effect a saving of £20 per annum. Some arrangement of 

 this sort is required to be made. More papers have been received for the 

 three past years than the funds admit of printing. It is necessary also 

 to supply illustrations for valuable articles that have been offered. 

 Several drav^ings have been presented by friends of the Club, but lor 

 want of means only a few of them can be engraved at one time. — J. H. 



