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the serious inconvenience which may possibly arise to the several 
Companies from the abuse of this privilege, have resolved, on 
their next application, to solicit, in the case of implements, a free 
passage only to the Show ; while for the live stock to be entered for 
competition they intend to ask as before for a free transit in both 
directions. 
In order to check the entry of stock or implements for the 
Country Meetings of the Society, and their specification in the 
printed catalogues, as well as the unnecessary expense of a pre- 
paration of space for their exhibition in the show-yard, when such 
stock and implements were either not intended at the time of 
entry to be sent to the show, or have been withheld upon insuf- 
ficient grounds, the Council have resolved to inflict certain fines, 
according to the amount of head of stock, or the value of the 
implements so entered ; admitting, however, all just pleas in lieu 
of those fines, for all such accidental or unavoidable causes of 
omission, as the Council shall allow to be valid : — and for afford- 
ing facilities to the implement-makers to complete the specifica- 
tion of their details for insertion in the catalogue, the Council 
have resolved to require only the entry of the particular imple- 
ments to be exhibited, and the space they will require in the 
show-yard, as heretofore^ by the 1st of May, allowing a further 
month, namely, to the 1st of June, for the completion of such 
specifications. 
The Society have concluded with the authorities of the City of 
York an oflScial agreement in reference to the Country Meeting 
of next year ; and arrangements for the proceedings on the occa- 
sion have already been commenced. The Yorkshire Agricultural 
Society have liberally placed at the disposal of the Council the 
sum of 450/. for the promotion of the objects of the Meeting ; 
and the Council having already decided on offering a prize of 
50/. for the best Report of the Agriculture of the West Riding 
of Yorkshire, appropriated lOOZ. out of this local fund for like 
Reports on the Agriculture of the other two Ridings. The 
remaining sum of 350/. has been referred for appropriation to 
the General York Committee of the Society. This liberality on 
