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old, of the undermentioned breeds —Leicesters, Border Leicesters, 
Cotswolds, Lincolns, Kentish or Romney Marsh, Devon, Cheviot 
Mountain, Ryeland, &c., with prizes £15, £10, and £5; and a class for 
pens of three fat ewes, above three years old, of the undermentioned 
breeds—Southdowns, Hampshires, Suffolks, Shropshires, Oxfordshires, 
Dorset, and Cross-breds, with prizes £15, {10, £5. The animals in 
these two classes to be eligible to compete for their breed cups. 
That the prizes in the classes for wether sheep and wether lambs of 
the Suffolk breed be increased to: first, £15; second, £10; and third, £5. 
That the prizes in the Cross-bred wether sheep class (first cross from 
Cheviot, Scotch, and Mountain) be raised to: first, £15; second, £10; 
third, £5. 
That separate breed cups, value £15 each, be offered for Suffolk and 
for Dorset sheep, and that the Kentish or Devon, &c., and the Cheviot 
and Mountain breed cups be increased to £15 each. 
That the champion plate for the best pen of Short-woolled sheep be 
increased to £50, and the champion plate for the best pen of Long- 
woolled sheep to £30. 
That a class for single pigs of the Tamworth breed be instituted, 
with first prize £5, second £3. 
That for each second entry of cattle or sheep in the same class, 
members shall pay Ios., non-members zo0s.; post entries for same, 
members 20s., non-members £2. 
That the Judges Selection Committee be authorised to meet in the 
latter part of July, to select judges for the Show to be held in the 
December following. 
A Committee appointed to consider the question of the revision of 
the Club’s bye-laws suggested some slight alterations which were 
adopted by the Council and members. 
On the completion of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty the Qucen’s 
reign the following address of congratulation was unanimously passed— 
‘To THE QuEEN’s Most ExcELLENT Majesty. 
May it please Your Majesty. 
We, the President and Council representing the Smithfield 
Club, desire humbly to approach Your Majesty with the expression 
of profound loyalty and attachment to Your Majesty’s Throne 
and Person, and humbly beg to offer our dutiful and heartfelt 
congratulations upon the completion of the sixtieth year of Your 
Majesty’s eventful and prosperous reign. 
We recall with feelings of pride and gratification that Your 
Majesty has been for many years a regular and successful 
exhibitor at the shows of the Club. 
We heartily rejoice, in common with all Your Majesty’s 
subjects, in the celebration of the longest and most glorious reign 
in English history, and pray that the continued blessing of 
Almighty God may rest upon Your Majesty and Family, and the 
nations over whom your beneficent rule extends. 
_Signed on behalf of the Council this fourteenth day of June, 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. 
Hunt ty, President. 
E. J. Power, Secretary.” 
