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Report to the General Meeting. 
members of the Society to this rule ; they having decided that in 
no case whatever shall any certificate be received after that date. 
The Finance Committee have reported that, notwithstanding 
the hopes entertained by the Council of the payment of the 
arrears of subscription, there still remains a large amount of out- 
standing debt due to the Society under this head ; which it will 
be their duty very early to take into their most mature and serious 
consideration. 
The Council have, since their last report, passed a resolution 
affecting the order of their meetings, and defining the character of 
the business to be transacted at them ; limiting to the first Wednes- 
day in every month, at which any governors can be present, the 
deliberations and resolutions on the strict official details of the 
Society's business ; and throwing open to the meetings held on 
the three other Wednesdays of the month the presentation and 
discussion of communications on the subject of agricultural in- 
terest — all members of the Society being allowed the privilege of 
attending these last mentioned weekly meetings of the Council. 
At the close of the session in August last, the Council confided 
to Mr. Dean, as honorary director of the works, the arrangements 
required for adapting the various parts of the Society's house to 
the several objects and purposes decided upon by them at their 
former meetings. To this important task, Mr. Dean, forming a 
quorum of the house committee, with the friendly co-operation 
of Mr. Burke and Mr. Gibbs, devoted himself during the late 
autumnal vacation, with a success, and amount of time and (ex- 
ertion, which fully entitle him to the best acknowledgments 
of the Society; and has presented to the Council his detailed 
reports of the progress of the works, and explained at length the 
various objects to which each department of his plan is adapted. 
Mr. Dean has arranged the basement of the house as a depo- 
sitory for the display of such implements and other objects as the 
Council may think fit to exhibit. On the first floor, in addition 
to the council and committee rooms, a library and reading-room, 
open to members, has been provided, in which it is intended to 
form a standard collection of the best works on agricultural 
