Report to the General Meetin(j. 



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and presented to the Council^ who have directed it to be read to 

 you at the present General Meeting, as a document of much 

 inquiry and interest. 



The Duke of Richmond;, as Chairman of the General Bristol 

 Committee, has presented to the Council two Reports of the 

 proceedings of the Committee to the present time, including an 

 account of the favourable manner in which the Chairman and 

 Committee, as a deputation of the Society, were received at 

 Bristol ; and the Council are much gratified to learn that the 

 announcement made to Robert Phippen, Esq., the late, and to 

 George Woodroffe Franklyn, Esq., the present. Mayor of 

 Bristol, has been received by those gentlemen in so cordial and 

 courteous a manner ; and that the facilities offered by these Chief 

 Magistrates of the city, and the kind and active intervention of 

 Mr. William Miles, M.P., and Mr. Marmont, Secretary of the 

 Bristol Agricultural Society, have enabled the Committee to in- 

 stitute those inquiries respecting suitable localities and sites for 

 the Council and Pavilion Dinners, and for the Implement and 

 Cattle-yard, which have led to so favourable a result, that a 

 considerable amount of preparation has already been made in 

 advance for the Bristol Meetino-. The Council have directed the 

 Bristol Prize Sheet to be made known as widely as possible by 

 advertisement in the London Agricultural and the Bristol Papers, 

 and in its transmission by post to every Member of the Society. 

 They have also adopted the recommendations of the General 

 Bristol Committee : that in due time before the Meeting, a pro- 

 gramme of every requisite information respecting the Meeting 

 should be sent to each Member; that this year the show of cattle 

 should be open for one day only, the sale of Stock taking place 

 the next morning ; that the number to dine in the great Pavilion 

 be limited to 2400; and that Thursday the 14th of July should 

 be the principal day of the Show. The Committee have also 

 decided that the plan of the Pavilion erected at the Cambridge 

 Meeting is the one best adapted for the purposes of the Society ; 

 and that advertisements should be issued for builders and others 

 to send in tenders for its erection at Bristol. They have further 



