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cil, 33 in number, having been chosen by the Trustees and Senate
at their meeting held for that purpose in terms of the recent
Statute 38 Vic. Cap. 76, the first meeting of the University Council
took place on 3d Octr 1876. The Council commenced their proceedings
by adopting certain By laws, among others providing for
the appointment of a Registrar and the holding of their regular
annual meeting in the Convocation Hall on the day before the
holding of Convocation in the month of April at the hour of
Eleven o'clock in the forenoon. (Since altered to 3 P.M. on the
same day.) R.V. Rogers Esq. was appointed the first Registrar.

At the next meeting of the Council, 16th. January 1877,
the Revd Dr. Cook of Quebec was unanimously chosen to be the first
Chancellor of the University. Dr. Cook having intimated his acceptance
of the position to which he had been elected, the following
arrangements were made for his installation on Convocation day,
that the Vice Chancellor should preside, and open the Convocation
with prayer, and should put to the Chancellor the declaration of
fidelity, on his assenting to which the Chancellor should be led
to the Chair by the Vice Chancellor, the declaration to be in Latin,
to the following effect

"I ____________ undertake in the strength which God
shall give unto me, to perform to the best of my ability the

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