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nations have proved satisfactory, both to the Committee and the 

 parties themselves, who have evinced the greatest willingness to 

 comply with the rules of the Society, the chief cause of these 

 arrears having had its origin from the misconception of many 

 members as to the fact of the subscriptions being due in advance, 

 and taking date from the 1st of January in the year of their 

 election ; and, having paid up their subscriptions to the present 

 time, a great number of members who had been thus in arrear, 

 being anxious to obviate a similar omission for the future, have 

 either compounded for life or given permanent orders on their 

 bankers for due and regular payment year by year. The result 

 of the consideration of the Finance Committee on the second 

 point, of preventing the occurrence or accumulation of similar 

 arrears in future has been communicated to the Council by 

 Colonel Challoner, their chairman, who has stated at length the 

 decided \dews of the Committee on this subject, which is now 

 under the serious and deliberate consideration of the Council. 

 The Committee have also reported that since the anniversary 

 meeting in May last, the amount of 407/. has been paid and ac- 

 counted for in the discharge of the arrears then announced as 

 existing ; and they have, at the same time, laid before the Council 

 their numerical summary of the Society, which now consists of a 

 total of 5382 members, namely, 90 Life Governors ; 216 Annual 

 Governors ; 290 Life Members ; 4776 Annual Members ; and 

 10 Honorary Members. 



Your President has reported to the Council, that^ agreeably 

 with their resolutions, he took an immediate opportunity, after 

 the Liverpool Meeting, to address letters containing the Society's 

 votes of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation, the Directors 

 of the Mechanics' Institution, Messrs. Falkner and Lace, Messrs. 

 Lucas, and every other institution or individual in Liverpool or 

 its neighbourhood who had been instrumental in promoting the 

 objects of the Meeting. The value attached to the excellent 

 display of Agricultural Implements at that Meeting has been 

 greatly enhanced by the admirable Report which the Judges of 

 the Implements on that occasion have since drawn carefully up 



