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The Charities.
The Ballot for the House and Audit Committees was declared as follows : — HOUSE COMMITTEE . Messrs . Chandler . Messrs . Ten-Brock . Messrs . Lewis . " Baumer . " Buckingham . " Bossy . " Acklam . " White . " Hanley . " Shadbolt . - " Harrison . " M'Mullen .
AUDIT COMMITTEE . Messrs . Cleghorn . Messrs- M'Mullen . Messrs . Patten . " Lewellin . " Taylor . " Mather . " Wackerbath . " Warriner . " Cox . " Baumer . " Harrison . " Norris . Two Governors claimed a riht to vote for their respective Lodges
g , independent of their own votes , which , after some discussion , was allowed . Dr . Crucefix ancl Mr . Stevens , who had previously resigned their seats on the House Committee , tendered a request , previous to the ballot , not to be re-elected on the Audit Committee . There was much desultory conversation on some topics of interest , but without any specific resolutions .
May 12 . —A special General Court was held pursuant to the following advertisement , inserted in the morning papers : — " To take into consideration a circular letter addressed by Brother Rowe * to the Governors ofthe Institution , and the measures necessary to be adopted to counteract the attempt made in that letter to influence unduly the ensuing election of girls to fill vacancies , which now stands fixed for Thursday the 13 th day of May , at which special General Court
it will be proposed to postpone such election to some future day , to be fixed at such special General Court , and to declare all proxy papers issued for the 13 th day of May void , and to direct the issue of new proxy papers , or to take such other measures as the circumstances of the case may require . " B . B . CABBELL , Esq ., having been called to the chair , Mr . HARRISON inquired of Mr . Rowe if he would produce the
correspondence between himself and Mr . Goodwin , as otherwise he ( Mr . II . ) was authorised to do so . M . J . L . STEVENS felt desirous to know first , whether any communication had been made on the subject by the requisitionists for the meeting . Mr . ROWE declined to produce any correspondence until it became necessary ; he was ready to meet any fair charges ; but had received no intimation from the requisitionists , nor did he know any thing of the
matter until he saw the advertisement in the newspaper , Mr . Sunt . —The requisition was in his ( Mr . Sirr ' s ) handwriting ; he had left it to the discretion of the Secretary whether he should or should not give Mr . Rowe a copy . Mr . ROWE . —The Court will probably , under all circumstances , postpone the consideration of the subject until he should be able to meet the charge .
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The Charities.
The Ballot for the House and Audit Committees was declared as follows : — HOUSE COMMITTEE . Messrs . Chandler . Messrs . Ten-Brock . Messrs . Lewis . " Baumer . " Buckingham . " Bossy . " Acklam . " White . " Hanley . " Shadbolt . - " Harrison . " M'Mullen .
AUDIT COMMITTEE . Messrs . Cleghorn . Messrs- M'Mullen . Messrs . Patten . " Lewellin . " Taylor . " Mather . " Wackerbath . " Warriner . " Cox . " Baumer . " Harrison . " Norris . Two Governors claimed a riht to vote for their respective Lodges
g , independent of their own votes , which , after some discussion , was allowed . Dr . Crucefix ancl Mr . Stevens , who had previously resigned their seats on the House Committee , tendered a request , previous to the ballot , not to be re-elected on the Audit Committee . There was much desultory conversation on some topics of interest , but without any specific resolutions .
May 12 . —A special General Court was held pursuant to the following advertisement , inserted in the morning papers : — " To take into consideration a circular letter addressed by Brother Rowe * to the Governors ofthe Institution , and the measures necessary to be adopted to counteract the attempt made in that letter to influence unduly the ensuing election of girls to fill vacancies , which now stands fixed for Thursday the 13 th day of May , at which special General Court
it will be proposed to postpone such election to some future day , to be fixed at such special General Court , and to declare all proxy papers issued for the 13 th day of May void , and to direct the issue of new proxy papers , or to take such other measures as the circumstances of the case may require . " B . B . CABBELL , Esq ., having been called to the chair , Mr . HARRISON inquired of Mr . Rowe if he would produce the
correspondence between himself and Mr . Goodwin , as otherwise he ( Mr . II . ) was authorised to do so . M . J . L . STEVENS felt desirous to know first , whether any communication had been made on the subject by the requisitionists for the meeting . Mr . ROWE declined to produce any correspondence until it became necessary ; he was ready to meet any fair charges ; but had received no intimation from the requisitionists , nor did he know any thing of the
matter until he saw the advertisement in the newspaper , Mr . Sunt . —The requisition was in his ( Mr . Sirr ' s ) handwriting ; he had left it to the discretion of the Secretary whether he should or should not give Mr . Rowe a copy . Mr . ROWE . —The Court will probably , under all circumstances , postpone the consideration of the subject until he should be able to meet the charge .