ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 317 
The President proceeding to confirm them by attaching his 
signature, • 
Professor Spooner said, before those minutes were signed, he 
meant to contend that that meeting was an illegal one, business 
having, according to the minutes read, been transacted at that 
meeting which was not inserted in the advertisement calling it : 
it was, therefore, an illegal meeting, and the minutes ought not to 
be confirmed. 
The President contended that it was not necessary that the 
whole of the business to be transacted by the meeting should ( be 
stated in the advertisement calling it. The meeting, he was pre- 
pared to maintain, was legally convened according to the Charter : 
the minutes which had been read detailed the business that had 
been transacted, and every thing had been conducted in a regular 
manner. 
Professor Spooner still would maintain that they were bound 
to proceed legally, which they had not done. 
Professor Dick was prepared to contend that the proceedings 
were perfectly regular : it was the course that had been pursued 
last year, and he was going to move that it be acted on on this 
occasion ; still he thought, that if, at the annual meetings, they 
were to be strictly confined to the mere election of six members of 
the Council, it was too bad to call upon the members to assemble 
from all the distant parts of the kingdom, and he, for one, should 
not come next year. He thought that it was the duty of the 
meeting to go into the consideration of the proceedings of the 
Council during the past year, which ought to be laid before them, 
and, therefore, he should move that the minutes of the Council’s 
proceedings be also read. 
Mr. Mayer , as a member of the Council, was most anxious to 
give to the meeting an account of his stewardship. 
Professor Spooner agreed with the observations of Professor 
Dick, but still considered that they must act in accordance with 
the terms of the Charter : he, therefore, felt himself bound to shew 
the meeting what they were doing, and that, if they considered 
themselves to be a corporate body, they were bound to act as 
such. 
The President said he should at once proceed to sign the 
minutes, well knowing that they were correct, and being con- 
vinced that the Charter could never mean that the College was 
not to transact general business at a general meeting : and he 
thereupon signed the minutes. 
Professor Spooner would enter his protest against the signing, 
and read from the 4th page of the Charter an extract in support , 
of his opinion. Upon those words of the Charter he was pre- 
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