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aaopal agruultural S>otkt}) of englaitft. 



ANNIVERSARY MEETING, 

 5, Cavendish Square, May 22, 1841. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Society has now been established for three years, and the 

 Council having had the satisfaction of reporting at every General 

 Meeting during that period the steady increase in the number 

 of Members, who have enrolled their names in its list, from 

 every district in the kingdom, and of recording the progressive 

 interest with which its labours have been regarded, have, on the 

 present occasion, the further satisfaction of seeing that its example, 

 and that of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 

 have led to the establishment of a similar Society in Ireland. 

 The Finance Committee have been applying their attention to 

 the completion of that system of arrangement in the accounts 

 which they have adopted as the most simple in its details, and to 

 which reference was made at the last General Meeting. They 

 have also prepared for the inspection of the Auditors a Balance- 

 sheet of the accounts for the whole of last year, showing the 

 receipts and payments of the Society from the 1st of January to 

 the 31st of December, and followed by a general account of the 

 state of the funds of the Society at the end of that year ; and have 

 reported to the Council the further permanent investment they 



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