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Report to the General Meeting. 
3. In the Show-yard exhibitors must use smokeless coal, which, for their 
convenience, will be i^rovided and sold at a fixed price by the Society, or by an 
agent duly appointed by it. 
4. Shafting, belts, gearing, high-speed machinery, and any other exhibits 
likely to prove dangerous to the public, shall be securely fenced and protected 
to the satisfaction of the Society's Stewards or Engineers ; but such approval 
by the Stewards or Engineers shall not relieve the exhibitor from his liability 
under other Clauses. 
5. Emery wheels and similar grinding machinery driven at high speeds will 
not be allowed to be exhibited in motion ; and the decision of the Society's 
Stewards or Engineers in reference to such machinery shall in all cases be final 
and of immediate effect. 
6. Engine-drivers in charge of boilers under steam, and of steam-engines 
when running, shall not absent themselves from their posts without leaving 
their machinery in charge of competent persons. 
The Committee appointed by the Council to ascertain what 
sites within the Metropolitan area may be available and suit- 
able for the Society's Show in 1879 are continuing their investi- 
gations, and it is hoped that they may be eventually successful ; 
but up to the present time no definite conclusion has been 
arrived at. 
The health of the Live Stock of the Farm has been the most 
prominent subject which the Council have had to consider 
during the past year. At the Annual Meeting in May, when 
it was still uncertain whether the Liverpool Meeting could be 
held, they reported that they had watched with the greatest 
anxiety and alarm the progress of the outbreaks of cattle-plague 
in London and Hull ; that, in addition to suggesting certain 
measures for the purpose of dealing with the immediate emer- 
gency, they had represented to the Lord President of the Council 
the necessity of protecting English herds from this and other 
foreign contagious diseases, by prohibiting for the future the 
importation of Live Stock from European ports, and by en- 
forcing uniform and compulsory measures for the suppression 
of contagious diseases amongst farm stock throughout the 
kingdom. 
The result of these representations was the appointment of 
a Select Committee of the House of Commons to enquire into 
the whole subject of Cattle Plague and the Importation of Live 
Stock. The Council secured the examination of practical and 
scientifk; witnesses, both agricultural and otherwise ; and they 
believe that the evidence given was felt to be of a most useful 
and representative character. Although the recommendations 
made by the Select Committee did not go so far as the resolu- 
