168 TIMEHRI. 
Ele€tions.—Members ; Rev. P. A. Farrar, Mr. E. C. 
Hamley. 
Associates: Messrs. F. B. Gall, W. H.. 
Davies and David Donelly. 
The Honorary Treasurer laid overthe annexed Statement 
and Balance Sheet for 1896, which, having been audited’ 
by the Dire€tors in accordance with the By-Laws, was 
adopted and ordered to be hung up in the Reading Room. 
Mr. Conyers moved, and Mr. L. M. Hi!l seconded, that 
the balance at credit be handed over to the Dire€tors, to 
be used by them in any way that was considered most 
conducive to the interests and objects of the Society. 
This was unanimously agreed to. 
The Secretary read the following Report from the 
Agricultural Committee :— 
Georgetown, February Ioth, 1897. 
To the President and Members of the 
Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society. 
Gentlemen,—On behalf of the Agricultural Committee of the Society I 
have the honour to report that they have considered Mr. Hassell’s letter in 
reference to the Cattle Disease on the East Coast, and are of opinion that 
Mr. Hassell should have reported the matter to the Government some 
months before, in accordance withthe Ordinance, when an Inspeétor, orthe 
Government Veterinary Surgeon, would have been sent to enquire into it, 
I have also to report in connection with Mr, Scard’s paper on Cane 
Farming that the Committee have made enquiries as to the number of 
plantations the proprietors of which would buy canes in accordance 
with a scale to be fixed by the Society, and have drawn up a list which 
they propose to publish. 
I have, &c., 
S. M. BELLAIRS, 
Secretary, Agricultural Committee. 
(Copy of Circular). 
Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, 
Georgetown, 30th December, 1896. 
Dear Sir,—By direction of the Agricultural Committee of the 
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