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Report to the General Meeting. 
kingdom, at each of their weekly meetings — no less than 2/4 new 
members having been elected during the last three months and 
a half. Since the last General Meeting in December, the Council, 
at the recommendation of the Finance Committee, have ordered 
the names of 249 members to be removed from the list of the 
Society. Of these, 31 were lost to the Society by death, and 157 
struck out, either at their own request, on account chiefly of their 
ha\-ing entered the Society, at the country meetings, for temporary 
purposes only, or on the decision of the Committee, who have 
maturely taken each case of exemption, claimed under a variety 
of circumstances, into their special consideration, while the re- 
maining 61 have withdrawn their names from the Society for 
reasons assigned by them at variance with the fundamental rules 
of the charter. 
The Finance Committee will lay before you the Auditors' 
Balance-Sheet of the accounts to the end of the year 1843; and, 
at the same time, report the actual state of the funds of the So- 
ciety at the present time. They have also reported that at the 
last General Meeting in December, the arrears of subscription, 
due on previous years, to that date inclusively, amounted in the 
whole to 5724/., since which time they have been reduced by the 
sum of 1124/. The Finance Committee having represented to 
the Council that in some instances they found great difficulty in 
recovering the arrears of subscription due to the Society, the fol- 
lowing Resolution was passed, namely : — 
" That a professional person be appointed to write letters, 
demanding arrears of subscription, to all such parties as 
shall be designated from time to time by the Finance 
Committee ; and, in case of such applications not being 
successful, to take further legal steps for enforcing the 
payments due." 
That Committee have accordingly already taken preliminary 
steps, under professional direction, for the recovery of some of 
the remaining arrears ; but they still trust that, by the prompt 
payment of what is due, ulterior legal measures may be rendered 
unnecessary. 
