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CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT. 



The general business of The Highland and Agricultural Society is 

 conducted under the sanction and control of a Royal Charter, which authorises 

 the enactment of Bye-Laws. Business connected with Agricultural Education 

 is conducted under the authority of a Supplementary Royal Charter, also 

 authorising the enactment of Bye-Laws. 



The Office-Bearers consist of a President, Four Vice-Presidents, Thirty 

 Ordinary and Ten Extraordinary Directors, a Treasurer, an Honorary and an 

 Acting Secretary, an Auditor, and other Officers. 



The Directors meet on the first Wednesday of each month from November 

 to June. The proceedings of the Directors are reported to General Meetings 

 of the Society, held in January and in June or July. 



With reference to motions at General Meetings, Bye-Law No, 7 provides — 

 " That at General Meetings of the Society no motion or proposal (except of 

 mere form or courtesy) shall be submitted or entertained for immediate 

 decision unless notice thereof has been given a week previously to the Board 

 of Directors, without prejudice, however, to the competency of making such 

 motion or proposal to the effect of its being remitted to the Directors for con- 

 sideration, and thereafter being disposed of at a future General Meeting." 



The Council on Education, under the Supplementary Charter, consists of 

 Sixteen Members — Nine nominated by the Charter, and Seven elected by 

 the Society. The Board of Examiners consists of Ten Members. 



Candidates for admission to the Society must be proposed by a Member, 

 and are elected at the half-yearly General Meetings in January and June or 

 July. The ordinary subscription is L.l, .3s. 6d. annually, which may be 

 redeemed by one payment, varymg, according to the number of previous 

 annual payments, from L.12, 12s. to L.7, Is. Proprietors farming the whole 

 of their own lands, whose assessment on the valuation Roll does not exceed 

 L.500 per annum, and aU Tenant- Farmers, Office-Bearers, of Local Agricul- 

 tural Associations, Resident Agricultural Factors, Land Stewards, Foresters, 

 Agricultural Implement Makers, and Veterinary Surgeons, none of them 

 being also owners of land to an extent exceeding L.500 per annum, are 

 admitted on a subscription of 10s. annually, which may be redeemed by one 

 payment, varying according to the number of previous annual payments, 

 from L.5, 5s. to L.3. According to the Charter, a Member who homologates 

 his Election by paying his first .subscription cannot retire until he has paid 

 in annual subscriptions, or otherwise, an amount equivalent to a life composi- 

 tion. Members having Candidates to propose are requested to state whether 

 the Candidate should be on the L.l, 3s. Gd. or 10s. list. 



Members of the Society receive the Transactions free on application to the 

 Secretary, and are entitled to apply for District Premiums — to report Plough- 

 ing Matches for the Medal — to attend Shows free of charge, and to exhibit 

 Stock at reduced rates. 



Orders, payable at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, are issued by 

 the Directors, in name of the parties in whose favour Premiums have been 

 awarded. 



All communications must be addressed to "Fletcher Norton Menzies, 

 Esq.-, Secretary of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, No. 3 

 George IV. Bridge. Edinburgh." 



