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and fixed rule, The Direétors might be safely left to 
manage the funds of the Society, and he did not agree 
with the meeting essaying to instruét them what to do. 
Hon. N. Darnell Davis spoke of the amount at com- 
mand of the Book Committee. 
The Chairman thought they could not infringe on Mr, 
Parnell’s motion, as that gentleman had asked to have it 
postponed to the next meeting. 
Hon. N, D. Davis proposed, and Mr. Watt seconded, 
aS an amendment to the motion, that the Trea- 
surer’s statement be received and considered, but 
after some further discussion this was withdrawn and 
the original motion carried. 
The Secretary reported that as the Hon. N. Darnell 
Davis had declined the office of Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of Correspondence, Mr. S, M. Bellairs had been 
eleéted to that office by the Committee and the Revd. 
W. B, Ritchie as Vice-Chairman. 
The Secretary read the following report of the Agri- 
cultural Committee :— 
Georgetown, February 8th, 1893. 
To’ thé President and Members 
of the R. A. & C. Society. 
Gentlemen,—By dire&tion of the Agricultural Committee of the 
Society, I have the honour to report for the information of the mem- 
bers as follows :— 
__ 1, That the Committee propose to hold regular meetings on the first 
Tuesday of every month at four ovclock in the afternoon, and as they 
think it desirable to interest the members generally, and especially 
those connected with agriculture, in these meetings, they have decided 
to open them to all members of the Society. The first of these will be 
held on Tuesday the 7th of March, 
2. That at the meeting of the 7th inst,, the Chairman called atten- 
tion to the fact that a cattle disease, probably a recurrence of Anthrax, 
was then raging in Mahaicony, and he feared that if something were not 
