He found his professorial duties increasingly irksome, and feeling that the pressure of literary work left him no spare energy, he decided in 1880 to resign the post.
She hired lawyers to convince the one remaining director, who wouldn't knuckle under, to resign so that the corporation would not incur more legal fees.
The provincial government warned its civil marriage commissioners, such as mayors or justices of the peace, that they must perform these marriages or resign, as the marriages are now legal.