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I.— LAWS CONTAINED IN THE CHAETEE, WHICH 
CANNOT AT ANY TIME BE ALTEEED OR 
DEPAETED FEOM. 
Meet- 
Election of 
President and 
Council. 
Vacancies. 
Council to ci n- 
sist of. 
1. The Society is a coiijorate body, by the name of the Eoj^al 
Agricultural Society of England, and has a Common Seal. 
2. It is a condition of the Eoyal Charter that a principle of 
the constitiition of the Society shall be the total exclusion of all 
questions, at its meetings or in its proceedings, of a political 
tendency, or having reference to measures pending or to be 
brought forward in either House of Parliament ; which no reso- 
lution, bye-law, or other enactment of the said body politic and 
coi-porate shall, on any account or pretence whatever, be at any 
time allowed to infringe. 
3. The number of subscribers is indefinite ; and classed into 
Governors and Members. 
4. Power is given to elect Honorary, Corresponding, and 
Foreign Members. 
5. Thiee General Meetings are to be held in each year : two of 
these in London, in the months of May and December ; and the 
other in such part of England or "Wales as shall be deemed most 
advantageous for the advancement of the objects of the Society. 
The General Meeting in London is to be held on the 22nd (or, 
should that date fall on a Sunday, on the 23rd) of May. 
6. The Governors and Members have full power to elect a 
President and Council at the general May Meeting, which 
President and Council, although then duly elected, shall never- 
theless not come into office till the conclusion of the ensuing 
Annual Country Meeting to be held that year. AIL vacancies 
occurring in such officers and appointments, by resignation, 
death, or otherwise, are to be filled up by election and the 
majority of votes of the remaining Members of such President 
and Council. 
7. The Council is to consist of one President, twelve Trustees, 
and twelve Vice-Presidents, to be elected from the class of 
