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ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RULES. 



1. The English Agricultural Society consists of a President, twelve 

 Trustees, twelve Vice-Presidents, Governors, and Members. 



2. The President is annually elected, and is not re-eligible for three 

 years. 



3. The President, Trustees, and Vice-Presidents, are elected from the 

 Governors. 



4. The Governors pay 5/. annually, the Members II. , with the power 

 to compound for life by the payment in one sum of ten annual subscrip- 

 tions. 



5. The Committee of Management consists of the President, Trustees, 

 Vice-Presidents, and fifty Subscribers ; twenty-five of whom go out an- 

 nually by rotation, but may be re-elected. 



6. The Committee have the power of appointing Sub-Committees of 

 any subscribers to the Society, of all which sub-committees, the President, 

 Trustees, and Vice-Presidents are members ex officio. 



7. One general Annual Meeting will be held every year in London, 

 in the month of May ; and one in the Country, in the months of July or 

 August. 



8. The Committee and all the officers are elected at the annual meet- 

 ing in London, but do not enter upon the duties of their respective offices 

 until after the annual meeting in the Country. 



9. All governors and honorary members have the power of attending 

 meetings of the committee, but have not the privilege of voting unless 

 forming part of that committee. 



10. Every candidate for admission into the Society as governor or 

 member must be proposed by a subscriber. The proposer to specify in 

 writing the name, rank, and usual place of residence of the candidate; 

 and every such proposal to be read at the first meeting of the committee 

 next after such candidate shall have been proposed, and every such can- 

 didate to be eligible at the then succeeding meeting. 



IL No subscriber shall enjoy the privileges of the Society or attend 

 the meetings, whose subscription shall be in arrear. 



12. The Committee of Management will meet every Wednesday at 

 twelve o'clock for the discharge of business, three to be a quorum ; but 

 no grant of money shall be made at any such meeting, nor shall any 

 business of importance be considered as fully decided upon until con- 

 firmed at a subsequent monthly meeting. 



13. The meeting on the first Wednesday in every month shall be the 

 monthly meeting, five to be a quorum, when the general business of the 

 Society shall be transacted, grants of money made, reports of sub-com- 

 mittees considered and confirmed, if approved. 



14. At all meetings of the committee when the quorum is assembled 



