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MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY.

Office-bearers for the year ending September 1848.

H. E. Sir John F. Davis, bart, &c., &c., Patron.

Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D. D. President.

A Campbell, Esq. D. Matheson, Esq.

Colonel Phillports. II. P. Burn, Esq.

C. B. Hillier, Esq. J. Stewart, Esq. J. Dent, Esq. W. H. Morss, Esq.

Vice-presidents.

Treasurer.

Corresponding Secretary. Recording Secretary.

} Auditors.

A. H. Balfour, Esq, surg.

W. A. Harland, Esq.

Rev. S. W. Steedman.

Examining Cammittee.

The following are the Minutes of its last general meeting, held in Hongkong, Sep. 1847.

THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING of the MEMBERS and FRIENDS of the MOR- RISON EDUCATION SOCIETY was held at 7 P. m. on the 25th of October, 1817.

Present, Rev. Messrs. Stanton, Dean, and Cleland, Colonel Phillpotts, Captain Burton, Lieutenant Tod, Messrs. D. Matheson, Mackean, Strachan, Hillier, Scrymgeour, Framjee, Holdforth, Crakanthorp, Inglis Shortrede, Bird, Balfour. Dill, Marsh, Tozer, Mathews, Drinker, Meigs, Miles, Went- worth, and others.

The President and Vice-President being both absent, the Treasurer, D. Matheson, Esq.. took the chair. After a few remarks by the Chairman, the Reports of the Trustees, Mr. Macy, and the Treasurer were read to the Meeting; and the following resolutions were passed unanimously :-

1. Proposed by the Rev. Mr. Dean, and seconded by R. Strachan, Esq., That the Reports just read be adopted and printed under the direction of the proper Officers.

2. Proposed by Dr. Balfour, and seconded by A. Shortrede, Esq.,-That the number of Vice-Presidents be, as a provisional measure, increased from one to three.

Proposed by Dr. Dill, and seconded by A. L. Inglis, Esq.,-That this Meet- ing is satisfied of the beneficial effects that resulted during the year before last from the services of an Examining Committee; and they therefore resolve to continue this measure and adopt it as a standing rule of the Society-the Examining Committee of three to be appointed annually in the same manner as the other Officers of the Society.

4. Proposed by the Rev. Mr. Stanton, and seconded by T. Mackean, Esq.,- That the thanks of the Society be accorded to Mr. Macy for the satisfactory manner in which he has discharged his duties during the absence of Mr. Brown.

The Society then proceeded to the election of Officers, and at the suggestion of the Chairman the same course was adopted as at the last Meeting-of elect- ing them by a show of hands, subject to the appeal of any Member present who should prefer a ballot. The following gentlemen were then unanimously