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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 Eoyal Charter, also authorising 

 the enactment of Bye-Laws. 



The Office-Bearers consist of a President, Four Vice-Presi- 

 pents, Ten Extraordinary, and Thirty Ordinary Directors, a 

 Treasurer, an Honorary and an Acting Secretary, an Auditor, 

 and other Officers. The proceedings of the Directors are 

 reported to General Meetings of the Society, held in January, 

 and in June or Julv. 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 Eleven Members. 



Members are elected at the half-yearly General Meetings. 

 The ordinary subscription is £1 3s. 6d. annually, which may be 

 redeemed by one payment, varying, according to the number of 

 previous annual payments, from £12 12s. to £7 Is. Tenant- 

 Farmers, Secretaries, and Treasurers of local Agricultural Asso- 

 ciations, resident Agricultural Factors, and Proprietors farming 

 the whole of their own lands, whose valuation does not exceed 

 £500, are admitted on a subscription of 10s. annually, or £5 5s. 

 for life. 



Members of the Society receive the Transactions on appli- 

 cation, and are entitled to apply for District Premiums — to re- 

 port Ploughing Matches for the Medal — to attend Shows free 

 of charge, and to exhibit Stock and consult the Chemist at re- 

 duced rates. 



Orders payable at the Eoyal Bank of Scotland, are issued by 

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

 have been awarded. 



All communications must be addressed to " Fletcher Nor- 

 ton Menzies, Esq., Secretary of the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland, No. 3, George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh." 



