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1322 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
the lowest rate of subscription that entitles to a vote. This
discovery appeared to the Committee to call for delay and further
investigation, before proceeding to issue the notices for a General
Meeting.
"The Committee having discovered these extraordinary cir
cumstances, and, being unable to procure from the Agent any inform
ation which would enable either themselves or the scrutineers that
might be appointed at the General Meeting, to decide who were and
who were not legally eligible to vote, held a meeting on November 8,
at which it was resolved :—
"1st. To rescind the Resolution calling a Special General Meeting.
2nd. To remove the Secretary, who was hostile to the Committee,
and could not therefore work harmoniously with them.
"3rd. To dismiss the Agent, on the ground that he had plotted to
subvert the authority ofhis employers, and had refused to answer
questions relating to most important business of the Society,
and of his agency.
"4th. To take immediate possession of the business premises of the
Society; and to give Mr. White legal notice to quit the dwelling
apartments.
"5th. To appoint a Sub-Committee, endowed with the full power
of the Committee, to carry out the foregoing Resolutions.
"Written notice of his dismissal was handed to Mr. White, and
a legal notice forthwith to quit and deliver up to the Committee
those portions of the Society’s premises which he occupied under
his arrangement with the Committee. But he was informed that
convenient time would be granted him to make his arrangements to
leave the dwelling apartments. The Society’s business premises,
however, the Committee felt it their duty to take immediate possession
of. Yet, in order that this might occasion Mr. White as little in
convenience as possible, a written notice was tendered him to the
effect that the Sub-Committee would meet him at any time that it
might be convenient to him to appoint, to separate his stock from
the Society’s stock, and deliver it into his possession.
"It was with the greatest reluctance and regret that the Committee
felt obliged to take these summary measures-to which they were
advised by eminent legal counsel; and they did so upon the conviction
that to leave Mr. White in possession until after the-as they be
lieve illegal, certainly inequitable-Meeting which had been called
by his partisans, would be extremely hazardous to the interests of
the Society, which had committed to them their trust; that it would,
in fact, be surrendering to the Agent that authority and control which
the Society had confided to them. That, believing so, it was their
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