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QUARTERLY MEETING OF COUNCIL. 
Treasurer, he begged to move that the Council proceed to 
act on Bye-law 47, which had not yet been acted upon, and 
appoint a permanent Finance Committee. 
Mr. Burley seconded the motion. 
Mr. Braby thought there would be constant necessity for 
fresh explanations, if the accounts were not made to explain 
themselves. 
Mr. Cherry did not object to a finance committee, but wished 
the present inaccuracies to be cleared away previous to its 
appointment. 
Mr. Wilkinson asked whether the Committee contemplated 
by the amendment would be prospective or retrospective, and 
with a view of looking into the whole of the accounts. 
The Secretary said it was most desirable that the whole of the 
accounts should be most strictly investigated, and the doing 
so would be the first duty of the Committee ; and the cor- 
rection of any errors that might have crept in, once made, the 
future duties of the committee would be light and regular. 
Mr. A. Cherry thought that a committee should be ap- 
pointed for the specific purpose of looking into the accounts 
about which a question had been raised. 
The Secretary repeated that it would cast a reflection upon 
the gentlemen who had filled the office of Treasurer. 
After some further discussion, 
The Chairman put the Secretary’s amendment, which he 
declared carried. 
Mr. Cherry said he should bring forward his motion again. 
Registrar’s Report. 
The Registrar reported that 43 members had been admitted 
since the last Report, making 474 since the obtainment of 
the Charter. No deaths had been reported during the 
quarter. 
On the motion of Mr. Nice , seconded by Mr. Burley , £20 
was ordered to be advanced to the Secretary on the petty 
cash account. 
The cheques for current expenses were then ordered to be 
drawn. 
Professors Simonds and Morton , whose notices of motion 
were on the paper, not being present, they were postponed. 
Messrs Silvester , King, and the Secretary , having been 
named as the Committee of supervision, the proceedings 
terminated. 
F. R. Silvester, 
Francis King, 
E. N. Gabriel. 
