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CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT. 



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

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

 enactment of Bj^e-Laws. Business connected with Agricultural Education is con- 

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

 the enactment of Bye-Laws. 



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

 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 eiiect 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 Seveu 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, 

 but it is not necessary that the proposer should attend the meeting. 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 

 £7, Is. to £12, 12s. Proprietors farming the whole of their own lands, whose 

 rental on the Valuation Roll does not exceed £500 per annum, and all Tenant- 

 Farmers, Secretaries or Treasurers of Local Agricultural Associations, Factors 

 resident on Estates, 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 £3 to £5, 5s. Subscriptions payable on 

 election, and afterwards annually in January. 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 equi- 

 valent 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 free admission to the Sliowyard, and to exhibit Stock 

 at reduced rates. Firms are not admitted as Members, but if one ])artner of a 

 firm becomes a Member, the firm is allowed to exhibit at Members' rates. 



Orders, payable at the Eoyal 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, Es(j., 

 Secretary of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, No. 3 George IV. 

 Bridge, Edinburgh." 



