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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 18gt 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., 
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.” 
1891 
