Wednesday , January 11, 1905. 
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Other 1/embers of Council. — Mr. 
R. C. Assheton, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, 
Lord Brougham and Vaux, Mr. Percy 
Crutchley, Lt.-Col. J. F. Curtis- 
Hayward, Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, 
Mr. W. Frankish, Mr. R. M. Greaves, 
Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. W. 
Harrison, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. 
Hornsby, Capt. W. S. B. Levett, Mr. 
H. D. Marshall, Mr. J. Martin, Mr. 
Ernest Mathews, Mr. C. Middleton, 
Mr. T. H. Miller, the Rev. D. B. 
Montefiore, the Earl of Northbrook, 
Mr. Ralph Palmer, Mr. W. A. Prout, 
Mr. F. Revnard, Mr. H. P. Ryland, 
Mr. W. Scoby, Mr. E. W. Shackle, 
Mr. A. J. Smith, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. 
A. P. Turner, Mr. E. Y. Y. Wheeler. 
Governors. — Capt. W. H. 0. Dun- 
combe, Mr. G. Norris Midwood. 
Members . — The Marquis of Win- 
chester, Lord Northbourne, Sir 
Reginald Graham, Bart., Sir A. W. 
Legard, Bart., Sir. J. R. Heron Max- 
well, Bart., Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., 
Sir R. D. Green Price, Bart., Sir 
Henry Yavasour, Bart., Messrs. C. R. 
W. Adeane, D. T. Alexander, John 
Barker, John Beaulah, W. J. Bennison, 
Edward Blundell, Joseph Brandon, W. 
Broomhall, Lt.-Col. G. J. Fergusson- 
Buchanan, Messrs. Colin Campbell, 
James Chalcraft, W. W. Chapman, 
T. H. Cockbain, W. Cooper, S. Cope- 
land, F. S. Courtney, W. Crosland, 
F. J. K. Cross, H. S. Fenning, Charles 
File, A. N. Gilbey, H. W. Gilbey, 
A. G. Gold, Charles Goring, H. J. 
Greenwood. Henry Grinling, Percival 
Harter, G. S. Hewitt, T. G. M. Hine, 
F. A. Hordern, John Hughes, J. C. 
Hughes, H. Humphrey, R. H. P. 
Hutchinson, Surg.-Lt.-Col. J. Ince, 
M.D., Messrs. T. M. Jarmain, John 
Jones, Clement Keevil, C. R. Knollys, 
George Laing, T. Latham, Rev. C. H. 
Legard, Messrs. J. C. McCowan, K. 
J. J. Mackenzie, John McLaren, J. G. 
Mair-Rumley, Alfred Mansell, J. H. 
Master, Thomas May, W. Moat, J. M. 
Moubray, John Neilson, G. F. North, 
Capt. W. E. F. O’Brien, Messrs. E. 
Packard, Leopold C. Paget, Professor 
J. Penberthy. Messrs. A. W. Perkin, 
C. M. S. Pilkington, T. F. Plowman, 
R. Prendergast, T. V. Prickard, J. E. 
Rawlence, A. Roger Rowden, C. B. 
Russell, F. W. Silvester, H. M. 
Simmons, Henry Smith, T. Stirton, 
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H. Swithinbank, J. Herbert Taylor, 
Joseph Thorley, John Thornton, C. W. 
Tindall, J. de C. Treffry, E. Trimen, 
James G. Unite, Jonas M. Webb, T. P. 
Wilkes, H. J. C. Winterton, &c. 
The President, in opening the 
proceedings, said that they had met 
together for the consideration of the 
terms of the proposed Supplemental 
Charter, the main object of which 
was to enable the Society to prescribe 
for itself a new method of electing the 
Members of the Council, viz., by 
making divisions of the Society and 
empowering each division to return 
one or more Members. The new 
Charter would in fact constitute the 
framework upon which the new 
system would be built by means of 
bye-laws. The bye-laws could not be 
enacted until the new Charter had 
been obtained ; but the interval 
between the presentation and granting 
of the Charter — assuming, as they 
all hoped, that it would be granted 
substantially in the form of the draft 
— would be employed in carefully 
considering and framing the bye- 
laws. These bye-laws would then be 
submitted to a General Meeting of 
Members for their approval, and 
would not, of course, come into force 
until sanctioned by such General 
Meeting. The Members would 
naturally desire an indication of the 
form which the new scheme would 
take. Although that had not yet been 
fully considered by the Council, the 
matter had occupied their attention. 
The Committee, at their meeting held 
on the previous day, were unani- 
mously in favour of the principle 
of making each county a separate 
division, returning at least one 
ordinary Member of the Council, two 
Members for each county comprising 
300 Members, and an extra Member 
for every additional 200 Members. 
The Members of the Council, so 
appointed, would hold office for three 
years, so that there would be a 
triennial general election. At a con- 
venient date after the granting of the 
Supplemental Charter, the whole of 
the present Council would retire, and 
the new Council to be appointed 
under the scheme would come into 
office. This scheme represented the 
opinions of the Charter Committee 
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