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dent had stated, established on popular principles, there ought to 
be no withholding of information from the members, but a publica- 
tion of the proceedings of the Council. 
Mr Cherry felt that it was impossible for the members to know 
what had taken place during the past year, unless the Report of 
the proceedings of the Council was made public. How, he would 
ask, were the members present to know who to elect on the Council, 
unless they were in a position to judge how the retiring mem- 
bers had acted 1 At the last election, five of the retiring members 
were re-elected, and, if it was made known what they had 
done, they might again be returned that time. The Report of 
their proceedings during the past year ought, therefore, to be laid 
before the body at large, in order that they might regulate their 
judgments in the matter. 
Mr. Vines had declared at the previous meeting, that, whenever 
they met together to elect six members of Council, they should 
know what the Council had done during the previous year. Their 
assembling together would be of no use, if they were only to meet 
like schoolboys, to do that which they had done before. (Hear.) 
In that case, they ought to get rid of the Charter ; and if that was 
the way they intended to go on, he, for one, would not attend 
again. He always would stand up for upright conduct, and, if he 
found that the labours of the Council were fair and upright, he 
would support them ; but if he found that their conduct was not 
so, he would do away with them. 
Mr. Spooner considered that, if the Report alluded to had been 
submitted to the Council and approved by them, it ought to be read ; 
but if not, the reading of it would not be in accordance with the 
Charter. 
The Secretary said it had been approved of by the Council. 
Mr. Spooner would then submit that it ought to be read before 
the meeting proceeded to the election of Council. Many members 
were present on that occasion from distant parts of the country, 
for the express purpose of learning how the College was progressing, 
who had not seen a copy of the Report ; and he would therefore 
move that the Report be read before the election of Council took place. 
Mr. Cherry said that motion was the same as the one he had 
moved, and which had been seconded by Mr. Daws. 
The President , amid cries of “ question,” then put the motion 
which was carried. 
The Secretary then read the Report of the Council ; at its con- 
clusion, 
Mr. Cherry , rising (with the printed Report in one hand and a 
paper of MS. notes in the other), said, as the mover of the resolu- 
tion for the reading of the Report, he believed he was entitled to 
address the meeting. The task he had undertaken was a very 
