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and was used as evidence of control by British Guiana 
in the Boundary case. 
The meeting then terminated. 
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Meeting held Fehrwary 7th. — Mr. Geo. Garnett, 
F.R., in the chair. 
Members present 13. 
Before the minutes of previous meeting were read, 
the President said that the Directors, at a meeting held 
January 28th, had taken the responsibility upon 
themselves of at once sending the following address to 
His Majesty on the subject of the sad loss which the 
Empire had sustained by the death of her late Majesty, 
Queen Victoria. 
To The King's Most Excellent Majesty. 
May it please Your Majesty : 
We, the President, Office-Bearers and Members of 
the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of 
British Guiana, humbly beg to express our deep sorrow 
at the loss of our honoured Patroness, Her late 
August Majesty, Queen Victoria, who, in the year 1845, 
consented to become ^the head of our Society, and 
always evinced Her Royal interest in its welfare. 
We also desire to state that we share in the profound 
and universal grief with which the British Empire 
mourns the irreparable loss which the Royal House and 
