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The following suggestion was referred to the Council for con- 

 sideration by the Stock Prize Sheet Committee : " Whether the 

 time had not arrived for the Club to make a further restriction as to 

 the ages of animals exhibited at the Smithfield Club's Show in 1891 and 

 future years, and with this view, is it desirable to get the opinions of 

 members, by sending a circular to them, and to appoint a Committee to 

 consider their replies, and report at the November meeting ?" 



The suggestion was adopted and a Committee appointed. 



The Committee having considered the replies from the members to 

 the circular submitting the above suggestion to them, and the whole 

 question of the ages of the animals exhibited at the Club's shows at 

 present, with various resolutions and amendments thereon, recom- 

 mended : 



That the prize sheet remain as at present, with this exception, 

 that the heifer and cow classes (excepting Class 40, Extra Stock) be 

 altered as follows : 



Heifers not to exceed three years old. 



Cows, which must have had at least one live calf, to be above 

 three, and not exceeding six years old. 



This report was adopted. 



A suggestion from the Committee, that in future no heifer or cow 

 should be allowed to be exhibited in calf, was referred to the Stock 

 Prize Sheet Committee for consideration in February next. 



The President, with Mr. Clare Sewell Read and Mr. T. Duckham, 

 attended by request of the Council as a deputation to the President of 

 the Board of Agriculture, on the question of the control of outbreaks 

 of pleuro-pneumonia, with compensation in cases of slaughter from the 

 National exchequer. 



At the December meeting it was announced that the Government 

 had acceded to the request of the deputation and assumed the control 

 of outbreaks of pleuro-pneumonia, awarding compensation in cases of 

 slaughter out of the National exchequer. 



The President announced the deaths of Mr. Robert Leeds, Vice- 

 President, and Mr. Joseph Druce, Trustee, and it was resolved : 



" That letters signed by the President, expressive of the great 

 loss sustained by the Club by the death of Mr. Robert Leeds and 

 Mr. Joseph Druce, and of the Council's condolence and sympathy 

 in their sad bereavement, be sent to the families of the late Vice- 

 President and Trustee." 

 At the annual general meeting of the members it was resolved : 



" That the Council of the Club be invited to give their consider- 

 ation to the question of the disqualification of pigs under the 

 dentition test with a view to such alteration in the rules as may be 

 expedient and necessary in the interest of justice to exhibibitors." 



The President announced the deaths of the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 189! 

 and the Earl of Powis, Vice-Presidents, and of Mr. Edmund Beck and 

 Mr. Henry Overman, members of the Council, and it was resolved : 

 " That letters of condolence and sympathy from the Council 

 be sent to the families of their late'Vice-Presidents, and Mr. 

 Beck and Mr. Overman." 



