Report to the General Meeting. six 
the obligations which the Society owed to the Mayor and Cor- 
poration of Shrewsbury ; to Mr. Edward Haycock, and the Local 
Committee ; to Mr. Isaac Taylor, of Monkmoor ; to Mr. Pusey, 
M.P. ; to the Railway Companies, and to the Commissioners of 
Police, the Council have transmitted to those parties respectively 
a vote of their best thanks. 
The Council have appointed Committees for taking into con- 
sideration the following questions respectively referred to them : — 
1. For recommending the best method of providing for the per- 
sonal accommodation of the Judges, and for regulating the future 
rate of remuneration for their services. 
2. For reporting to the Council the most suitable rotation of 
districts, to commence in 1848, for the Annual Country Meetings 
of the Society, to be adopted on the termination of the present 
schedule, which ends in 1847 ; and 
3. For ascertaining, in conjunction with the legal advisers of 
the Society, the security to be provided in future against alleged 
infringement of patent rights, in making use of implements se- 
lected by the Judges for trial. 
The Cattle Prize Sheet for the Newcastle Meeting, as arranged 
in the month of June last, according to the bye-law, in which an 
increase is made in the amount of the principal prizes, has been 
already published; and the list of prizes to be offered for imple- 
ments at Newcastle has also been arranged. The Council are 
gratified to find, from the numerous applications received from 
various parts of the kingdom^ soliciting the Society to hold its 
Country Meeting in each of their respective districts, that the effects 
resulting from the system of a succession of districts adopted by 
the Council have not only proved to be of a most practical and 
beneficial character, but that they are duly estimated by the coun- 
try at large. For the accommodation of the exhibitors, they have 
decided on further arrangements to be made with the auctioneer 
at the sale of stock ; and in order to enable the consulting engi- 
neer to have Increased facilities for drawing up his Report on the 
exhibition and trial of implements, thoy have released him from 
the duties of acting as a judge, for the purpose of allowing him to 
