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At the meeting in July the Special Committee appointed 
in accordance with this motion recommended that the Club 
be incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1808, 
as a company not formed for profit, and the whole question 
was brought forward at the annual general meeting of 
members in December. The meeting, which was a record 
one, was opened in the Club Room at the Royal Agricul- 
tural Hall, but owing to the large number of members 
present—nearly five hundred—was adjourned to the 
Lecture Hall, Barford Street. The following resolution 
was proposed :— 
“That the Council of this Club be instructed to procure the 
registration of an association to be called the Smithfield Club 
Incorporated, and to be governed by the Memorandum and 
Articles of Association, drafts of which have already been 
prepared and passed by the Council, and provisionally approved 
by the Board of Trade; that in accordance with such 
Memorandum and Articles of Association, the objects of this 
Club be henceforward carried out by the Smithfield Club 
Incorporated; that the President, Vice-Presidents, members 
of Council, and other officers of this Club, be the President, 
Vice-Presidents, and ordinary members of Council of the 
Smithfield Club Incurporated ; that the further persons named 
in the Draft and Articles of Association of the Smithfield Club 
Incorporated be also Vice-Presidents and ordinary members of 
Council, respectively, of the Smithfield Club Incorporated ; that 
all the Assets and undertakings of this Club be transferred to 
the Smithfield Club Incorporated, on the terms that the 
Smithfield Club Incorporated shall undertake to discharge all 
the obligations and liabilities of this Club ; that the whole of 
the Rules of this Club be superseded by the Memorandum and 
Articles of Association above mentioned ; that this Club be 
thereupon dissolved ; and that the Council of this Club be 
hereby empowered to do all things necessary for carrying out 
this resolution.” 
A lengthy debate ensued on rule twenty-nine of the 
Articles of Association, which required that each member 
should vote for the eleven candidates to be annually elected 
on the Council, and the rule was ultimately amended to 
allow members to vote for one or more of the candidates. 
The resolution providing for the Incorporation of the Club 
and adopting the Articles of Association and Bye-Laws as 
amended, was adopted. 
On the 5th day of March following, the preliminaries 
having been completed, the Club was duly registered 
under the Companies Acts as the Smithfield Club 
(Incorporated). 
