Deliberations take place as with the Cantonal Societies in : 



1. The Principal Assembly. 



2. The Committee. 



IV. Organisation and Activity of the Office and of its Departments. 



-4) The General Secretariat. 



The General Secretariat has to keep the Central Committee, the Sections and Committees in 

 touch with the Office and with its various departments. It prepares meetings and reports ; it has to 

 register besides the minutes of the meetings, to execute all resolutions, and to look to all matters 

 concerning its employees. 



The General Secretariat has to superintend besides all departments of the Offices with regard 

 to all professional and administrative questions, and to study from the special point of view of 

 agricultural interests all matters for which there does not yet exist a special department. 



Among the objects of their activity are before ail matters concerning political economy, 

 administration, markets, veterinary services and other branches of activity mentioned in the statutes 

 of the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna, such as agricultural trials, agricultural education, diffusion 

 of knowledge through publications and conferences, etc. 



B) The Departements of the Office. 



Department I: Information Bureau. This department has to give advice and infor- 

 mation on all questions concerning the production of plants and animals, agricultural industry, etc. 



Department II: Technical Office. This Department supplies information for the pur- 

 chase of agricultural machines, the erection of plants, examines the estimates and designs of such 

 plants or supplies such documents and reports elaborated by the department itself. 



