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At the meeting in July the Special Committee appointed 

 in accordance with this motion recommended that the Club 

 be incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1898, 

 as a company not formed for profit, and the whole question 

 was brought forward at the annual general meeting of 

 members in December. The meeting, which was a record 

 one, was opened in the Club Room at the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Hall, but owing to the large number of members 

 present nearly five hundred was adjourned to the 

 Lecture Hall, Barford Street. The following resolution 

 was proposed : 



" That the Council of this Club be instructed to procure the 

 registration of an association to be called the Smithfield Club 

 Incorporated, and to be governed by the Memorandum and 

 Articles of Association, drafts of which have already been 

 prepared and passed by the Council, and provisionally approved 

 by the Board of Trade ; that in accordance with such 

 Memorandum and Articles of Association, the objects of this 

 Club be henceforward carried out by the Smithfield Club 

 Incorporated ; that the President, Vice-Presidents, members 

 of Council, and other officers of this Club, be the President, 

 Vice-Presidents, and ordinary members of Council of the 

 Smithfield Club Incorporated ; that the further persons named 

 in the Draft and Articles of Association of the Smithfield Club 

 Incorporated be also Vice-Presidents and ordinary members of 

 Council, respectively, of the Smithfield Club Incorporated ; that 

 all the Assets and undertakings of this Club be transferred to 

 the Smithfield Club Incorporated, on the terms that the 

 Smithfield Club Incorporated shall undertake to discharge all 

 the obligations and liabilities of this Club ; that the whole of 

 the Rules of this Club be superseded by the Memorandum and 

 Articles of Association above mentioned ; that this Club be 

 thereupon dissolved ; and that the Council of this Club be 

 hereby empowered to do all things necessary for carrying out 

 this resolution." 



A lengthy debate ensued on rule twenty-nine of the 

 Articles of Association, which required that each member 

 should vote for the eleven candidates to be annually elected 

 on the Council, and the rule was ultimately amended to 

 allow members to vote for one or more of the candidates. 

 The resolution providing for the Incorporation of the Club 

 and adopting the Articles of Association and Bye-Laws as 

 amended, was adopted. 



On the 5th day of March following, the preliminaries 

 having been completed, the Club was duly registered 

 under the Companies Acts as the Smithfield Club 

 (Incorporated). 



