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incorrectly returned in the certificate, the Stewards shall disqualify 

 such pigs, and report the same to the Council. 



Resolved, that the necessary portions of Professor Simonds' paper 

 on dentition of pigs be reprinted in a cheap form; after having been 

 revised by the Professor. 



Resolved, that there be a class for Suffolk (black-faced) wethers. 



Resolved, to abolish the classes for other breed of pigs, and to 

 substitute fresh classes for pigs of a large white breed. 



Resolved, that there be 3 additional Judges for sheep. 



That in order to relieve the Stewards from the necessity of going at 

 full length through the Club's accounts at the annual audit, a paid 

 auditor shall be appointed to examine and certify the details pre- 

 paratory to the Stewards auditing the final balance-sheet for each 

 financial year. 



That a paper similar to the one for nominating Stewards be sent 

 previous to the November meeting, to each member of Council, to 

 enable each to suggest the names of sixteen members of the Club 

 eligible for election on Council. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the death of the late Assistant- 

 Secretary, Mr. Pullen. The Council passed the following resolution 



" That the Honorary Secretary be requested to convey to the 

 " family of the late Mr. David Pullen, the sincere regret of the 

 " Council at the loss the family and the Smithfield Club have 

 " thus sustained by his death, and the desire of the Council 

 " to express its sympathy with the family in this bereavement." 



Mr. H. J. Hine, Secretary of the Shorthorn Society, appointed 

 Assistant-Secretary to the Club on the same terms as the late Mr. 

 Pullen. 



The Club's letters to be now addressed to No. 12, Hanover Square, 

 London, W. 



The Honorary Secretary authorised to arrange as to the loan of the 

 Club's troughs, etc., if application should be made for the use of them 

 by any other society exhibiting in the Agricultural Hall. 



That the annual report be in future printed at the end of the Prize 

 Sheets sent to the members of the Club. 



That the Council of the Smithfield Club is strongly of opinion that 

 the opening of the two metropolitan cattle markets on the same day 

 and at the same hour is highly injurious to both markets, and is the 

 probable cause of foot and mouth disease, and other contagious cattle 

 diseases being spread in the country ; and the Council therefore desires 

 that the Deptford Market should be held upon another day, or at least 

 that it should not be opened until 10 a.m., the time authorised by Act 

 of Parliament. 



A vote of thanks was passed to Professor Simonds for having revised 

 the paper on the dentition of pigs, reprinted by the Club from the 

 journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 



Resolved, that in those cases where under the rule authorising 

 a special award of an additional prize (of two-thirds of the last prize 

 offered in the class) amounted to an uneven amount, it be increased to 

 even pounds. 



