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GENERAL MEETING. 
12, Haxover Square, Fkidat, May 22, 1863. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have the satisfaction of reporting favourably of 
the progress made by the Society in the attainment of its prac- 
tical and useful objects. 
The number of its members at the present time differs only 
by 6 from the numbers at the date of the last general meeting, 
•205 names having been removed by death or otherwise from the 
list, while 211 new members have within the last 5 months been 
elected into the Society, which now consists of — 
80 Life Governors, 
88 Annual Governors, 
1,263 Life Members, 
3,735 Annual Members, and 
17 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 5,183. 
Mr. Bowly, of Siddington House, Cirencester, has been 
elected a Member of Council in the place of the late Mr. Jonas 
Webb. 
The funds of the Society are in a highly satisfactory state ; 
every claim against it has been regularly discharged as it has 
become due ; and while 16,488?. 17s. 10c?. remains invested in 
the New Three per Cents., an ample cash balance is available 
for curi-ent purposes in the hands of the bankeis. A deposit 
account having been opened with the bankers, the Society will 
receive interest on the funds which accumulate in the early part 
of the year, and will not be required till the show-yard is 
erected. 
