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"That the cordial thanks of
our Society be given to the Committee of the Charles Museum, for
the readiness with which they have advanced to associate
themselves with us, by offering the use of their rooms, and the
services of their Curator as Assistant-Secretary to our Society;
that, in accepting their offer, the Honorary Secretary be
requested to express to them an assurance of the gratification
which we anticipate in the maintenance of an intimate and cordial
union with them, and in the mutual advantages which that union
will ensure."
[Carried unanimously.]
The Mayor of Maidstone (GEORGE WICKHAM, Esq.), in
moving the ninth Resolution, said—
I cannot but express my sense of the great compliment
paid to the members of the Committee of the Charles Museum, in the
Resolution which has just been unanimously passed by this Meeting,
and by the manner in which they have been thanked for the
proffered, use of their rooms, and also for the offer made by this
Society of contributing towards the salary of a Curator, whose
services will be required by both institutions. Some two or three
months since, it was my good fortune to preside, in this room, at
a similar meeting, consequent upon the public spirit of Mr.
Charles, in bequeathing his collection of antiquities for the
benefit of his fellow-townsmen, and also upon the public spirit of
the inhabitants, in placing themselves under Ewart's Act for the
formation of a free library. It was a most gratifying meeting, and
shadowed forth that which has this day been realized: the
cementing and binding together the local institution of the
borough with the larger institution of the county. I am sure that
every effort will be made in Maidstone to forward the interests of
the two institutions; and I have no doubt that ultimately
this Society will reflect honour upon the county in which it has
arisen.
I have now to propose a Resolution thanking Mr. Bland
for his gift of the antiquities found on his estate—the remains
of a Roman villa.
The words of this Resolution which has been placed in
my
hands, are these :—
"That the cordial thanks of this Society be
given to William
Bland, Esq., of Hartlip Place, Sittingbourne, for his kind and
liberal
donation of Roman antiquities."
[Carried unanimously.]
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