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The President, at the close of the scrutiny, announced that the 
election had fallen on Mr. F. King, who had 33 votes ; Mr. May- 
hew, 33 ; Mr. W. C. Spooner, 30 ; Mr. C. Spooner, 21 ; Mr. W. 
A. Cherry, 19, and Mr. Wilkinson, 19. 
The Secretary then read a statement of the Treasurer’s accounts. 
Mr. Cherry objected to the expenses of the three gentlemen 
who had been sent to Edinburgh for the purpose of examining 
into the state of the school in that city, by the President, before 
the Council was complete, in 1844, and which expedition had 
been the sole cause of all the bickerings which had since arisen. 
He objected to that payment, as they had not been sent by the 
Council, but by a part of the Council. 
Mr. W. Field would acknowledge that he was one of the 
Council who authorised the Deputation to go, as there was not 
time to give notice for calling a public meeting. 
Mr. Cherry. And therefore the appointment of that Deputation 
was illegal. That was the reason why he objected to it. 
Professor Dick moved that the Treasurer’s accounts, just read, 
be printed and circulated amongst the members. 
The President explained, that it was necessary that there should 
be an examination made into the state of the Edinburgh School ; 
but at the moment the necessity existed, there was not time to 
obtain the sanction of the whole body. 
Mr. Cherry thought that the resolution come to by the portion 
of the Council who agreed to send the Deputation ought to be 
read. 
The President trusted that the meeting would allow the dis- 
cussion on the motion for the printing of the accounts to go on, as 
he thought it quite right that they should come to the question of 
the ways and means. 
Air. Cherry, to bring the question fully before the meeting, 
would further move, that the consideration of the passing of the 
accounts be deferred until they had been printed and circulated. 
Professor Dick would support that proposition, as he did not 
approve that the passing of the accounts should be taken into con- 
sideration before they had been printed and circulated. 
Mr. Mayhew thought the only question to be considered was, 
that if the Deputation went to Edinburgh without the consent of 
the Council, whether they ought not to bear their own expenses ; 
but if they went by consent of Ihe Council, then the College was 
bound to pay the expenses. (Hear, hear.) Had they gone as 
spies, as Professor Dick would wish the meeting to infer, then 
they must have gone without that gentleman’s knowledge. 
Professor Dick declared that they did do so. 
