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APPENDIX TO EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
^\)'t Uo^al Agricultural ^ocicfj) of lEnglanti. 
ITS CONSTITUTION AND BYE-LAWS. 
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The Society is incorporated by Royal Cbartcr, dated on the '^6tli of March, 
1840. Its Members being the then snbscribers of the then existing " Enghsh 
Agricultural Society," or those " who should at any time thereafter become 
subscribers thereof according to such Kegulations or Bye-laws as should be 
thereafter framed or enacted" — their number being indefinite, but classed 
according to their election or rate of payment, into Governors and Members — 
a principle of its constitution being the total exclusion of politics — " which no 
Eesolution, Bye-law, or other enactment of the said Body Jb'olitic and Corporate 
shall on any account be allowed to infringe." 
Clause 6 directs three General Meetings of the Society to be held annually — 
two in London, one in May and the other in December, and one in the country. 
At the May Meeting in London, the Governors and Members are empowered 
to elect a President and Council — consisting of one President, twelve Trustees, 
twelve Vice-Presidents elected from the Governors, and of filty other Members 
elected indiscriminately from Governors and Members, twenty-five of the 
fifty going out by rotation each year, but being capable of re-election. "All 
vacancies in such offices by resignation, death, or otherwise, to be filled up by 
election, and the majority of votes of the remaining Members of such President 
and Council." 
Clause 7 somewhat repeats Clause 6, granting to the May Meeting " full 
power and privilege of selecting the President Trustees, Vice-Presidents, and 
other Members of the Council, from the Governors and Members as aforesaid," 
"and that such President, Trustees, Vice-Presidents, and Council shall be 
regulated in their proceedings by such Bye-laws as may and shall from time 
to time be enacted by them conformably with the terms of the Charter." 
No established Bye-law, however, being in any case altered, or a new one 
proposed, without at least one mouth's notice of such intention being given 
to each Member of the Council, " and empowers the President and Council to 
appoint and remove a Secretary, responsible to them for the discharge of his 
duties as defined, from time to time, by their Bye-laws or Special Resolutions." 
Clause 9 declares that the President and Council " shall 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 the other affairs 
and concerns thereof, and shall or may, but not inconsistently with or con- 
trary to the provisions of the Charter or any existing Bye-law or the laws or 
statutes of the realm, do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to them 
necessary or essential to be done for the ] purpose of carrying into effect the 
objects and views of the said Royal Agricultural Society of England." 
Various Bye-laws and Regulations, or Resolutions, have been passed by the 
Council, which, with the Charter, have been printed for the use of Members. 
(A print accompanies this Case.) 
The Bye-laws Nos. 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 27, and 7G, and Resolutions 
Nos. 1 and 4, are those more particularly to be referred to for the purposes of 
this Case. 
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