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Laws, Bye-Laws, and Regulations. 
annual officer of the Society; and not re-eligible to the office of Presi- 
dent for three years. Twenty-five of the fifty general Members of the 
Council to go out each year by rotation, but may be re-elected. 
7. The General Meeting in May shall elect the President, Trustees, 
Vice-Presidents, and other Members of Council, from the Governors 
and Members. 
8. The Council to be regulated in their proceedings by such bye- 
laws as may and shall from time to time be enacted by them, con- 
formably with the tenour of the Charter; no established bye-law being 
in any case altered, or new one proposed, without at least one month's 
notice of such intention being given to each Member of the Council. 
9. The Council shall have power to appoint, and remove, one general 
Secretary to the Society ; such Secretary to sue and be sued in their 
name and on their behalf. 
10. The Council shall have the sole management of the income and 
funds of the said body politic and corporate; and also the entire ma- 
nagement and superintendence of all other affairs and concerns thereof ; 
and shall or may — but not inconsistently with or contrary to the pro- 
visions of the Charter, or any existing bye-law, or the laws of the land — 
do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to them necessary or essential 
to be done for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and views 
of the said Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
II. — Bye-Laws. 
AH existing Bye-Laws, Rules, and Regulations shall be rescinded, 
and the following be adopted in their places. 
Governors and Members. 
Every candidate for admission into the Society must be proposed by 
a Member, the proposer to specify in writing the name, rank, usual 
place of residence, and post-town, of the candidate, either at a Council, 
or by letter to the Secretary. Every such proposal shall be read at the 
Council at which such proposal is made ; or, in the case of the Candi- 
date being proposed by a letter to the Secretary, at the first meeting 
of the Council next after such letter shall have been received. At the 
next Meeting of the Council the election shall take place, when the 
decision of the Council shall be taken by a show of hands ; the majority 
of the Members present to elect or reject. The Secretary shall inform 
Members of their election by a letter, in such form as the Council may 
from time to time direct. All Members belong to the Society, and are 
