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careful attention of the Council. They have decided that no 
exhibitor shall be allowed to enter duplicates of the same article, 
and that a maximum fine of 10 per cent, on the declared price 
shall be imposed for each article exhibited in breach of this rule ; 
but that in no case shall the fine be less than \l. They hope that 
this step will have the desired effect of preventing any unnecessary 
extension of the Exhibition without curtailing its usefulness or 
diminishing its interest. 
The Regulations affecting the Awards of Medals to Miscel- 
laneous Articles have also been revised, and it has been resolved 
that in future no Medal shall be awarded to any Implement 
included in the Quinquennial rotation which is not placed in the 
classes tried at that Meeting, nor to any Miscellaneous Article 
capable of trial until it has been subjected to such trial as the 
Stewards may direct. 
The Council have received with much regret the resignation 
of Mr. C. E. Amos, the Consulting Engineer of the Society. In 
recording their high sense of the very valuable services which 
Mr. Amos has rendered to the Society during the twenty-three 
years that he has fulfilled the important duties of his office, they 
feel sure that they are expressing the general opinion of the 
Members of the Society. 
In the Stock Prize-sheet for the Wolverhampton Meeting the 
Council have made further additions to the Prizes which have 
hitherto been offered for Live Stock, In particular, they have 
added a fourth Prize in the Classes of Shorthorn Bulls above one 
year old, but have somewhat reduced the amount of the first 
Prize ; they have offered separate Prizes for the two breeds of 
Guernsey and Jersey Cattle ; and they have decided to establish 
a series of Classes for Cheviot and other Mountain Sheep. In 
order to ensure the purity of blood of the Shorthorns exhibited at 
the Society's Country Meetings, it has been resolved "that each 
animal entered in the Shorthorn Classes shall be certified by the 
exhibitor to have not less than four crosses of Shorthorn blood 
which are registered in the Herd-book." 
The Council have been requested by Her Majesty's Commis- 
sioners for the International Exhibition of 1871 to assist them in 
forming a collection of live specimens of the best breeds of 
animals whose wools are principally used in the Woollen and 
Worsted Manufactures, by recommending breeders of good ex- 
