General Meeting, Oct. 1 1 lh 9 1856. 



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2. — That the Assistant Secretary be instructed to convene 

 a General Meeting of the Society for Saturday the ] 1th 

 instant, at 4 P. M. (Dr, Willisford kindly promised to allow his 

 house for the proposed Meeting, which was accepted.) 



3. — That a deputation consisting of Mr. C. P. Layard, 

 Dr. Willisford, Mr. Dawson, The Rev. Mr. Thurstan, Mr. J. 

 Alwis, Mr. Coomarasamy, and Mr. Lorenz, be requested to 

 wait on His Excellency the Governor, The Hon'ble the 

 Chief Justice, and the Hon'ble the Major General, and to 

 request them to join the Society, and to allow themselves to 

 be nominated the Patron and Vice-Patrons of the Society 

 respectively ; (assented to by the Gentlemen nominated as a 

 deputation. ) 



J as. Alwis, 

 Asst, Secretary. 



GENERAL MEETING, HELD llTH OCTOBER 1856. 



Present: — The Reverend D. J. Gogerly, in the Chair. 



The Rev. J. D. Palm, C. P. Layard, Esq., J. Bailey, Esq,, 

 George Lee, Esq., L. de iToysa, Esq., M.Coomarasamy, Esq., 

 R. Dawson, Esq., Capt. Dudley, W. Skeen, Esq., C. A. 

 Lorenz, Esq,, Dr. Willisford, J. Neitner, Esq., and the 

 Assistant Secretary. 



Read the proceedings of the last Evening Meeting. Mr. 

 Layard said, that in accordance with the 3rd Resolution just 

 read, he had spoken to His Excellency the Governor intimat- 

 ing to him, on behalf of the Society, that a deputation was 

 appointed to wait upon him, and that His Excellency ex- 

 pressed his willingness to receive them at a time which he 

 would afterwards appoint. Mr. Dawson said, that he had 

 made inquiries, and had engaged at a rental of £ 1 per month, 

 two rooms behind the Chamber of Commerce^ and that in his 



