Laws and Bye-Laws. 
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GovoiTiors only ; and of fifty other Members to be elected indis- 
criminately from the Governors and Members of the Society. 
18. The President is to be an annual officer of the Society, and 
not re-cligible to the office of President for three years. 
19. Twenty-five of the fifty general Members of the Council 
are to go out each year by rotation, but may be re-elected. 
20. The General Meeting in May shall elect the President, 
Trustees, Vice-Presidents, and other Members of Council, fi-om 
the Governors and Members. 
21. The Council is to be regulated in their proceedings by such 
bye-laws as may and shall from time to time be enacted by them 
conformably with the tenor of the Charter : no established 
bye-law being in any case altered, or new one proposed, without 
at least one month's notice of such intention being given to each 
Member of the Council, 
22. The Council have power to appoint and remove one general 
Secretary to the Society ; such Secretary to sue and be sued in 
their name and on their behalf. 
23. The Council have the sole management of the income and 
funds of the said body politic and corporate ; and also the entire 
management and superintendence of all other affairs and concerns 
thereof; and can — but not inconsistently with or contrary to 
the provisions of the Charter, or any existing bye-law, or the 
laws of the land — do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to 
them necessary or essential to be done for the purpose of carrying 
into efi'ect the objects and views of the said Eoyal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
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Secretary. 
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II.— BYE-LAWS. 
24. All existing Bye-Laws, Rules, and Piegulations shall be 
rescinded, and the following be adopted in their places. 
Admission of Governors and Members. 
25. Every candidate for admission into the Society must be Admission of 
proposed by aMember, the proposer to specify in writing the name, ' 
rank, usual place of residence, and post-town, of the candidate, 
either at a Council, or by letter to the Secretary. Every such 
