EErORT OF SUB-COMMITTEE. 395 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



I^ORTHUMBEItLAKD, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 



UPON-TYNE. 



REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE APPOINTED AT 



A MEETING OE THE COMMITTEE HELD ON 



THE 4Tn OCTOBER, 1875. 



Your Sub-committee beg leave to report as follows : — 



The Rules of the Society, adopted at its formation in 1830, 

 and embodied in the Trust-deed, dated 1st September, 1834, pro- 

 vide as follows: — ''An Annual Meeting shall be held on such 

 day of the Newcastle Summer Assize week as the Committee 

 shall appoint, which shall have power to elect the annual mem- 

 bers of the Committee for the ensuing year, to enact new, and 

 alter and repeal existing laws ; but no such enactment, altera- 

 tion, or repeal shall take place, unless a specific notice thereof 

 shall have been given at a previous General Meeting." 



A meeting called the Anniversary Meeting was held in 18GC, 

 not in the Summer Assize week, but on the 26th April. 



The Committee then presented a report, in wliich they stated 

 that the Rules provided that the Anniversary Meeting should bo 

 held in the Assize week in the August of each year, and tliat as 

 the time for holding the Assize Courts had been changed, this 

 was no longer practicable. The statement thus made was inac- 

 curate. The Rules provided for liolding the Annual Meeting, not 

 in tlic Assize week in August, but in tlie Summer Assize week ; 

 and the change from August to July in the time of hohling tlie 

 Assizes did not involve tlio consc(iuence supposed. Tlie Com- 

 mittee furtlior stated that a sdiedulc of amended Rules would be 

 submitted to the meeting ; and if the proposed amendnicnta 

 filiould moot with aj)pr()val fjom the Society, it would be Uw 



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