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LAWS, BYE -LAWS, and REGULATION'S. 
I. — Laws contained in the Charter, which cannot at any 
TIME BE ALTERED OR DEPARTED FROM. 
1. The Society is a corporate body, by the name of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England, and a Common Seal. 
2. It is a condition of the Royal Charter that a principle of the con- 
stitution of the Society shall be the total exclusion of all questions, at its 
meetings, or in its proceedings, of a political tendency, or having refer- 
ence to measures pending or to be brought forward in either House of 
Parliament ; which no resolution, bye-law, or other enactment of the 
said body politic and corporate shall, on any account or pretence what- 
ever, be at any time allowed to infringe. 
3. The number of subscribers shall be indefinite ; and classed into 
Governors and Members. 
4. Power is given to elect Honorary, Corresponding, and Foreign 
Members. 
5. Three General Meetings to be held in each year : two of these in 
London, in the months of May and December ; and the other in such 
part of England or Wales as shall be deemed most advantageous for the 
advancement of the objects of the Society. The General Meeting in 
London to be held on the 22nd (or, should that date fall on a Sunday, 
on the 23rd) of May. 
6. The Governors and Members have full power to elect a President 
and Council at the general May Meeting; which President and Council, 
although then duly elected, shall nevertheless not come into ofBce till 
the conclusion of the ensuing Annual Country Meeting to be held that 
year. All vacancies occurring in such officers and appointments, by 
resignation, death, or otherwise, to be filled up by election and the 
majority of votes of the remaining Members of such President and 
Council. The Council to consist of one President, twelve Trustees, 
and twelve Vice-Presidents, to be elected from the class of Governors 
only ; and of fifty other Members, to be elected indiscriminately from 
the Governors and Members of the Society. The President to be an 
