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returned, their election would not have been valid. The present 
meeting was the first one that had been legally summoned. 
Mr. Gabriel then continued the reading of the Minutes, and at 
the conclusion 
The President said—Gentlemen, it will now be your duty to 
proceed to the election of seven members of the body corporate as 
members of the Council; six to take the places of the six retiring 
members, and the seventh to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 
demise of the late Mr. Mayer. 
Mr. Cherry said, he was glad that the present meeting was 
called in a legal manner according to the provisions of the Charter, 
a Special Meeting being called to be held after the election of the 
Council. 
Mr. Vines differed in opinion from the last speaker; he hoped 
that, the next year, the Special Meeting would be taken first, and 
the accounts gone into before the Council are elected, and not for 
the meeting to be the tools of the Council as they now were 
[ hear ]. 
Mr. Gloag wished to know whether the advertisement had ap¬ 
peared in all the papers, because he saw so few of the members in 
attendance. 
Mr. Gabriel said it had appeared in all. 
Mr. A. Cherry thought that, although there were 1400 
members, the attendance was a very fair one, and quite equal to 
that of most public bodies. Let them only look at the report of 
the last meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, and they would 
see that the attendance was not larger [hear]. 
Mr. Baker and Mr. Dunsford were then proposed as Scrutators 
during the balloting for the Council. 
Mr. Cherry objected to the nomination of Mr. Baker, that gen¬ 
tleman not being eligible. 
Mr. Baker said, he had himself thought for some time past, 
that, considering the other offices he filled, he was no longer 
eligible to perform the duties as a member of the Council, and he 
had therefore resigned that office. 
Mr. A. Cherry could not see that Mr. Baker, filling the offices 
he did, could be objected to acting as scrutator. 
Professor Spooner felt that he owed his thanks to Mr. Baker 
for the manner in which he had performed the duties of a member 
of the Council, and also those of an Examiner. 
Mr. A. Cherry said his observations in moving Mr. Baker’s 
nomination had only related to the office of scrutator, and not to 
that of a member of the Council. 
Messrs. Baker and Dunsford were then elected scrutators, and 
the election of the required members of the Council was pro- 
