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COXSTITUTIOX AXD ]\IA:N-AGEMENT. 



The general business of The Highland and Agricultural Society is con- 

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

 enactment of Bye-Laws, Business connected with Agricultural Education is con- 

 ducted under the authority of a supplementary Royal Charter, also authorising 

 the enactment of Bye-Laws. 



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

 and Twenty 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 ; seven being a quorum. 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. 10 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 consideration, 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 £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. Proprietors farming the whole of their own lands, whose 

 assessment on the Valuation Roll do'es not exceed £500 per annum, and all 

 Tenant-Farmers, Office-Bearers of Local Agricultural Associations, Resident 

 Aoricultural Factors, Land Stewards, Foresters, Agricultural Implement Makers, 

 and Veterinary Surgeons, none of them being also owners of land to an extent 

 exceeding £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 £5, 5s. to £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 

 composition. Members having candidates to propose are requested to state whether 

 the candidate should be on the £1, 3s. 6d. 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 Ploughing, 

 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 persons 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." 



