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9
The Work of the Year.
This Report contains a summary of the more important
proceedings of the Board. It must only he regarded as a
brief and much curtailed account of the work of the year.
For fuller details the printed minutes must be consulted.
Changes in the Personnel of the Board.
Considerable changes have taken place in the membership
of the Board during the year under review. At the
election of members in June, 1897, Messrs. Samuel J.
Coulson, William T. Douglass, Arthur Fox, Frederick
German, Henry Jewell, Horatio Porter, Henry A. Thomson,
and James W. Wolfe were elected in the place of Messrs.
Charles Austin, Henry Cooper, James F. Corben, Samuel
Cousens, John Drew, Walter Hazell, M.P., Arthur L. Leon,
and J. Bamford Stack, who retired by effluxion of time.
At the first meeting in June, 1897, Mr. Willoughby
was re-elected Chairman of the Board, and on the 11th
January, 1898, the Board received with great satisfaction
the intimation that the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
London had placed their Chairman's name on the Commission
of the Peace.
Accounts.
The accounts of the Board for the past year have been
prepared in the usual form, and after being examined by