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Resolved, that the number of members of the Club be unlimited. 

 Election to be by ballot, and one-third present to exclude. 

 A Devon ox was driven 126 miles to the show. 

 The show was held at Dixon's Repository, Barbican. 



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Arthur Young, Esq., resigned the secretaryship, not being able to 

 attend at the time the meetings were held. 



The offices of Treasurer and Secretary were made distinct. 



Mr. John Frarey was appointed Secretary, with a salary, and " liberty 

 of publishing the proceedings and papers of the Club for his own 

 benefit, as Mr. Arthur Young had heretofore done." 



Mr. Paul Giblett was appointed treasurer. 



The show was held this year in Sadler's Yard, Goswell Street. 



H.R.H. the Duke of York gained a prize for a pig. 



Lord William Russell was elected Chairman during the Duke of 

 Bedford's absence abroad. 



Lord Somerville and Mr. H. King, Junr., were appointed inspectors, 

 to attend the weighing of prize animals. 



It was determined to offer for next year (1807) seven prizes for fat 

 oxen or steers, of the weight of 120 stone and upwards, viz.: 



1806 



Class 

 Class 

 Class 

 Class 

 Class 

 Class 



I. 



II. 

 III. 

 IV. 



V. 

 VI. 



20 guineas. 



Herefords 

 Long-horns 

 Short-horns 

 Sussex or Kent 

 Devons 

 Mixed Breeds 



Also an additional prize for the best ox or steer in the above classes, 10. 



The following conditions were added : " The animals exhibited for 

 the above premiums must have worked at least two years ending the 

 ist of Jan., 1807, and must not have been put to fatten previous to 

 that day. No cake must have been given previously to the 5th of 

 April, and the whole of the food consumed from the ist of October to 

 the 3oth of November must be certified. The time of putting to feed, 

 and the state of the flesh, must be certified, under the attestation of 

 two respectable witnesses." 



There were no exhibitors for the Long-horned, Short-horned, and 

 Sussex prizes. 



The prize in the class for Devons was not adjudged, for want of 

 sufficient merit. 



There were no exhibitors for the cow prize. 



Resolved, that in future there be three Judges instead of five. 



That the Secretary's salary be 30 guineas. 



The Club's dinner was held in the Freemasons' Hall. 



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The Proprietor of Sadler's Yard, Goswell Street, paid the Club only 

 50, he finding provender as usual. 



The Club also entered into the same agreement with Mr. Sadler for 

 holding Lord Somerville's show. 



Again this year there was no exhibitor for the Long-horned prize. 



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