iv Report to the General Meeting. 
Life Governors 96 
Annual Governors 204 
Life Members 495 
Annual Members 6123 
Honorary Members 15 
making a total of 6933 Members. 
2. It appears from the statement of arrears that on the 1st day 
of the present month 35 Governors and 2281 Members were in 
arrear of subscription, the sum amounting to 5730/. ; that at the 
General Meeting in Pecember last the amount of such arrears 
stood at 6609/., a reduction of 879Z. having been effected during 
the last six months. The present amount of invested capital is 
8200/., a purchase of 500/. stock in the 3^ per cents, having been 
made during the last month. The current cash balance in the 
hands of the Society's bankers at the present time is 2038/., not 
including the sum of 1000/. contributed by the town of Shrews- 
bury towards the expenses of the ensuing Country meeting, and 
already paid over to the credit of the Society's account. 
A Committee has been formed for the purpose of consider- 
ing the best mode in which the collection of subscriptions ran 
be effected by means of paid collectors, and on their report the 
Council have resolved to try the experiment of such local col- 
lection within districts comprised by the counties of Bedford, 
Buckingham, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, Huntingdon, and 
Northampton: the Committee, accordingly, having arranged the 
practical details by means of which such resolution may be sys- 
tematically carried out. 
3. The Council have invited the Members at large to nominate 
at the General May Meeting such judges for the Country meet- 
ings as they recommend for the several classes of stock and 
implements; and they have appointed Committees for each of 
those departments respectively to examine such lists of nomina- 
tions, and report the result to the Council, by whom the appoint- 
ment will be finally made. As no exhibitor will be allowed to 
take any part in the nomination or appointment of judges for the 
classes in which he competes, the Council trust that this extended 
