24 PEOCEEDINGS AT GENERAL :\IEET1NGS. 



Mr. Walker of Bowlaud, C.B. ; Mr. Mylne, Xiddrie Mains ; Sir Alexander Muir 

 Mackenzie of Del vine, Bart. — Mr. Scott Dudgeon to be convener. 



11. Report by Committee. — In terms of the above remit, j'our committee met on the 

 6th of April, 25th May, and 12th October, and having given the whole subject their 

 most careful consideration, have to suggest that Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the by-laws 

 should be cancelled. These are as follow : — 



5. The Secretary shall, thirty days before the meeting of Directors, at which the list 

 of Ordinary and Extraordinary Directors for the ensuing year is to be made up, intimate, 

 by advertisement in any two or more of the Edinburgh newspapers, that the Directors 

 are prepared to receive from members of the Society, within eight days from the date 

 of such intimation, the names of such members as they may desire to suggest for the 

 consideration of the Directors, in making uj) the list to be recommended for the adop- 

 tion of the Society at the general meeting in January. 



6. The Society shall annually, at the general meeliug in January, choose out of the 

 ordinary members a Board of thirty Directors, special regard being had to the con- 

 venience of one-third of that number for attending meetings of the Board held in 

 Edinburgh. 



, 7. The Society shall also at same meeting choose twenty Extraordinary Directors, of 

 whom at least ten out of the whole number to be resident in the district in which the 

 Show of the year is to be held. 



8. The President sliall not continue in office for more than four consecutive years. 

 The four Vice-Presidents, the seven senior Ordinary Directors, and the ten senior 

 Extraordinary Directors shall retire annually ; and the President, Vice-Presidents, 

 and Directors (ordinary and extraordinary), who so vacate office, shall not be eligible' 

 to be re-elected in the same capacity for at least one year. Any Ordinary Director 

 who shall not have attended a meeting of the Board of Directors for one year, 

 unless prevented by bad health, shall be held to have vacated his seat in the Direction. 

 The list of office-bearers to be p>roposed by the Directors for election at the general 

 meeting shall be published in any two or more of the Edinburgh newspapers fourteen 

 days preceding. 



9. The Board of Directors shall meet on the first Wednesday of each month during the- 

 sittings of the Court of Session, and occasionally, as business may require, on a requi- 

 sition by three Directors to the Secretary, or an intimation by him. Committees shall 

 be appointed by the Directors, and shall in all cases report procedure to them for their 

 consideration and approval. The Directors shall keep a record of their proceedings, to 

 be laid liiefore the general meetings for their consideration and direction. All members 

 of the Society, though not in the Direction, may attend the meetings of the Directors- 

 and deliver their opinion, but they shall have no vote. The President, Vice-Presidents, 

 Directors (ordinary and extraordinary). Treasurer, and Honorary Secretary shall be- 

 entitled to vote at meetings of the Board. 



And that the following should be adopted : — 



5. The Society shall annually, at the general meeting in January, choose out of the 

 ordinary members a Board of thirty-two Directors, at least one-half of whom shall be 

 tenant-farmers or others paying the lower subscription. At the same meeting it shall 

 also choose twenty Extraordinary Directors, ten of whom shall be resident in the dis- 

 trict in which the Show of the year is to be held ; the other ten shall be selected 

 because of their known interest in, and experience of, the business of the Society, and 

 of these at least three shall be tenant-farmers. 



6. A list of Office-bearers and Directors shall be annually submitted by the Board of 

 Directors for election by the Society at the general meeting in January. The Board, at 

 its June meeting each year, shall appoint a committee of its members to prepare such 

 list, and to submit it for its consideration at its November meeting, that the same may 

 be finally adjusted. The list shall be published in two Edinburgh and two Glasgow 

 newspapers at least foiirteen days preceding the general meeting. 



7. The members of the Society resident in each of the eight Show districts shall, 

 every year, before the 10th October, send to the Secretary the name of a member to 

 act as an Ordinary Director, and their recommendation shall have due weight given to 

 it by the Board of Directors in the preparation of the list which it submits to the Society 

 for election at the general meeting. Regulations for this purpose shall be framed by~ 

 the Board. 



8. The President shall not continue in office for more than four consecutive years. 

 The Vice-Presidents, the ten Extraordinary Directors chosen because of their connection 

 with the Show district, and at least eight of the senior Ordinary Directors (one from each 

 of the Show districts), shall not be eligible to be re-elected in the same capacity for at 

 least one year. Any Director who shall not have attended a meeting of the Board for 

 one year, unless prevented by bad health, shall be held to have vacated his seat at the 

 Board. 



9. The Board of Directors shall meet on the first Wednesday of the months of Novem- 

 ber, December, April, and June, when all the important business of the Society shall 



