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LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
ordinary Directors, and the Rev. Dr. Norman
M'Leod and Charles Forbes, Esq., banker, Ordinary
Directors in room of those who retire.
Mr. Alex. Cunningham, W.S., had much plea-
sure in hearing the names of the gentlemen pro-
posed by Sir Adam Hay for appointment as Directors
— the business habits of those proposed for the
Ordinary Direction were well known, and he had
much satisfaction in seconding the motion, which
having been carried.
The Rev. Dr. Norman M'Leod, in returning
thanks for his appointment as an Ordinary Director
of the Society, begged to say that he felt much grati-
fied by the honour conferred upon him by so respect-
able a meeting of his esteemed fellow-citizens. The
confidence reposed in them inferred responsibility
and diligence ; he hoped that he felt that responsi-
bility, and that he should be enabled to promote
the advancement of the excellent and philanthropic
objects for which the association was formed. It
had frequently fallen to his lot to look out for mem-
bers for various charitable and philanthropic socie-
ties, and he might with gratitude say, that he had
not been an idle or inactive member of any society
with which his name stood associated. In urging
friends and acquaintances to become members of
this Society, he felt that he was doing them a favour;
he did not know a more philanthropic measure in
which an individual could engage, or beat about
from house to house over all the land, than in urging
every one, whatever his rank, station, or income