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the necessary accommodation free of rent charge. There was
also read a communication from the members of the Uni-
versity Senate, of date 25th, April 1870, setting forth the urgent
importance of making provision as soon as possble for the better
accommodation of the several departments of Queen;s College.
After careful consideration of the matters referred to in
these documents the Board unanimously agreed to the follow-
ing Resolution;
"Whereas at the time accommodation was granted in
the new building to the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons at an annual rent of $250 it was distinctly
intimated to them, by the Board, that it might soon
become necessary to terminate such arrangement in view
of the inconvenience and insufficiency then existing have, in
the meantime, not only not diminished but have very
sensibly increased, and the Board being satisfied that the
time has now come when it is their duty, in justice to
the interests of Queen's College, to place the whole of the
new building at the disposal of the Faculties
of Arts and Theology, and to this end to terminate

1869-70

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