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City of Georgetown. The Jubilee year of her reign 
having arrived, he thought the Society should mark in 
the manner suggested, its appreciation of the honor 
conferred upon it by Her Majesty in consenting to be 
the Patroness of the Society since its re-establishment in 
1844. 
Mr. Mewburn Garnett seconded the motion. 
Mr. F. A. R. Winter moved as an amendment the 
motion of which he had given notice, that the amount of 
the contribution be $240. 
The Secretary questioned the propriety of such an 
amendment, considering that it should be dealt with as 
a substantive motion, it having been notified as such. 
The obje&ion however was over-ruled. 
Mr. Nind opposed on principle both motions, as he 
believed that the appropriation of the funds of the 
Society for the obje6l proposed was contrary to the 
rules of the Society, which clearly specified the objefts 
to which the Society's funds could be devoted, and statues 
to the Queen were certainly not included. Personally he 
regretted thus throwing a wet blanket on the loyalty of 
the Society as he was not deficient himself in that qual- 
ity, but he maintained that the motions were out of 
order. 
Mr. Colbeck seconded Mr. Winter's amendment, and 
referred to the appropriation of the Society's funds for 
the purpose of the Campbell memorial bust as a prece- 
dent for the contribution in the present instance. 
The President thought that the laws and rules 
should be read in a broad and liberal sense, and he 
therefore ruled that the motions were in order. With 
regard to the remarks made by Mr. Colbeck, in reference 
