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Society ; now the Government had supplied a copy of 
the Report ; and he hardly thought it reasonable to 
obje6l at the eleventh hour. 
Mr. Hargreaves begged to remind Mr. Mackay that it 
was through the instrumentality of the Society that the 
Commission had been appointed and if its report was to 
be regarded as political he did not know what they 
could discuss. 
The Chairman said he stood in the invidious position 
of President of the Society and one of the Commissioners 
who had edited the minority report. Further he hap- 
pened to be a member of the Court of Policy, where 
the report was discussed the other day. For his own 
part he did not see the slightest objection to discussing 
it. It was an important matter in which the Society 
had always taken the greatest interest. When it was 
before the Court of Policy the Governor in winding up 
the debate said that the proposed resolution did not 
bind the Court further than to provide for surveys. 
Mr. Sproston proposed, to save time, that the report 
be discussed. 
Mr, Mackay asked for the ruling of the Chairman, on 
which the President said he ruled that the meeting 
could discuss the report. 
Mr. Mackay further asked whether the question would 
not be referred to the Society's legal adviser to which 
several members replied they had none. 
Mr. Sproston expressed his willingness to pay to have 
the point settled. 
Mr. Bayley said it was only a few months since they 
had discussed the Insolvency law of the colony, the 
Chief Justice himself being present. If they could talk 
