cial act of parliament. In 1831, however, the society granted the
corporation an allowance of 700 l. When the reformed corporation came
in, and found that they were so far emancipated from the thraldom of
the London governor that they could go before parliament themselves,
the society was constrained to increase its dole to 1,200 l. a year.

Mr. Isaac Colhoun, at the meeting referred to, produced from the
accounts of the society for the previous year, published in the local
papers, the following items:--

L s. d.
Amount of the present increased income 11,091 17 5
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Incidental expenses as per general agents' account
for 1865 114 3 0-1/2
Law expenses 492 7 11
Salaries to general agent, deputy, vice-admiral,
surveyor, and others 926 16 6
Pension to general agent 250 0 0
Visitation expenses, 1865 539 19 6
Surveying expenses 50 0 0
Salary of clerk and porter's wages 197 10 0
Coal, gas, printing, stationery, advertisements 449 11 5
Salary to secretary and assistant governor, and
'assistants' for attendance at 51 meetings 549 1 6
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4,094 1 6

Here, then, is a trust fund amounting to about 12,000 l. a year, and
the trustees actually spend one-third in its management! And what
is its management? What do they do with the money? Mr. Pitt Skipton,
D.L., a landed proprietor, who has nothing to gain or lose by the
Irish Society, asks, 'Where is our money laid out now? Not on the
estate of the Irish Society, but on the estates of the church and
private individuals--on those of owners like myself who give their
tenants perpetuity, because it is their interest to do so. We should
wish to see the funds of the society so expended that we could see
some memorial of them. But where is there in Derry any monument wholly
erected by the society which they were not specially forced to put up
by charter, with the exception of a paltry piece of freestone within
one o