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Report to the General Meeting. 
Committee to make any use of them of which they may be found 
available in carrying out the objects of the Society, have ordered 
their thanks for such favour to be returned to those gentlemen 
accordingly. 
There having frequently existed a doubt how far it has been 
the intention of some of the writers of the essays to enter into 
communication with the officers of the Society, in reference to 
points of detail connected with their essays, the Council have 
adopted the following recommendations of the Journal Committee 
on this subject : — 
" 1. That competitors shall be required to enclose their 
names in a cover, on which only their motto and the sub- 
ject of their papers, with the number of that subject in 
the Prize List of the Society, shall be written. 
" 2. That the Chairman of the Journal Committee alone 
shall be empowered to open the motto-paper of such 
essays not obtaining the prize as he may think likely to 
be useful for the Society's objects ; with a view of con- 
sulting the writer confidentially, as to his willingness to 
place such paper at the disposal of the Journal Com- 
mittee." 
The following recommendation of the Journal Committee on 
the subjects and amount of prizes for the essays of next year, has 
also been adopted by the Council — the conditions of which will 
be announced, as usual, in the Appendix to the next Journal, — 
the essays for these prizes being required to be sent to the Secre- 
tary on or before the 1st of March, 1845 : — 
50Z. — On the farming of Nottinghamshire. 
50Z. — On the farming of Cornwall. 
50Z. — On the farming of Kent. 
20/. — On the best method of reclaiming heath-land. 
10/. — On the advantages of one-horse carts. 
20/. — On catch-meadows. 
20/. — On fences. 
10/. — On the best method of fattening cattle. 
20/. — On the cheapest mode of establishing a tile-yard. 
