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Resolved, that the number of members of the Club be unlimited. 
Election to be by ballot, and one-third present to exclude. 
A Devon ox was driven 126 miles to the show. 
The show was held at Dixon’s Repository, Barbican. 
Arthur Young, Esq., resigned the secretaryship, not being able to 
attend at the time the meetings were held. 
The offices of Treasurer and Secretary were made distinct. 
Mr. John Frarey was appointed Secretary, with a salary, and “liberty 
of publishing the proceedings and papers of the Club for his own 
benefit, as Mr. Arthur Young had heretofore done.” 
Mr, Paul Giblett was appointed treasurer. 
The show was held this year in Sadler's Yard, Goswell Street. 
H.R.H. the Duke of York gained a prize for a pig. 
Lord William Russell was elected Chairman during the Duke of 
Bedford’s absence abroad. 
Lord Somerville and Mr. H. King, Junr., were appointed inspectors, 
to attend the weighing of prize animals. 
It was determined to offer for next year (1807) seven prizes for fat 
oxen or steers, of the weight of 120 stone and upwards, viz.:— 
Class I. Herefords 20 guineas. 
Class II. Long-horns a + 
Class III. Short-horns i ‘3 
Class IV. Sussex or Kent ,, Pe 
Class V. Devons 7 5 
Class VI. Mixed Breeds ,, Ff 
Also an additional prize for the best ox or steer in the above classes, £10. 
The following conditions were added :—‘‘ The animals exhibited for 
the above premiums must have worked at least two years ending the 
ist of Jan., 1807, and must not have been put to fatten previous to 
that day. No cake must have been given previously to the 5th of 
April, and the whole of the food consumed from the 1st of October to 
the 30th of November must be certified. The time of putting to feed, 
and the state of the flesh, must be certified, under the attestation of 
two respectable witnesses.” 
There were no exhibitors for the Long-horned, Short-horned, and 
Sussex prizes. 
The prize in the class for Devons was not adjudged, for want of 
sufficient merit. 
There were no exhibitors for the cow prize. 
Resolved, that in future there be three Judges instead of five. 
That the Secretary’s salary be 30 guineas. 
The Club’s dinner was held in the Freemasons’ Hall. 
The Proprietor of Sadler's Yard, Goswell Street, paid the Club only 
£50, he finding provender as usual. 
The Club also entered into the same agreement with Mr. Sadler for 
holding Lord Somerville’s show. 
Again this year there was no exhibitor for the Long-horned prize. 
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