I.AWS AND BYE-LAWS. 
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Retirement 
rotation. 
■Governors only ; and nf fifty other Members to be elected indis- 
criminately from tlio Governors and Members of the Society. 
8. The President is to be an annual officer of the Society, and 
not re-eligible to the office of President for thi ee j'ears. 
9. Twenty-five of the fifty general Members of the Council 
■are to go out each year by rotation, but may be re-elected. 
10. The General Meeting in May shall elect the President, 
Trustees, Vice-Presidents, and other Members of Council, from 
the Governors and Members. 
11. The Council is to be regulated in their proceedings by sucli Bye-laws 
bye-laws as may and shall from time to time be enacted by them 
•conformably with the tenor 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. 
12. The Council 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. 
13. The Council have the sole management of the income and 
the funds of the said body politic and corporate ; and also the entire 
management and superintendence of all other affairs and concerns 
thereof; and can — but not inconsistently with or contrary to 
the provisions 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. 
Appointment of 
Secretary. 
Council Man- 
asemcnt. 
II.— BYE-LAAVS. ; 
1. All existing Bye-La'w^s, Kules, and Regulations shall be 
lescinded, and the following be adopted in their places. 
Governors and Members. 
2. Every candidate for admission into the Society must be f'^posal of 
proposed by a Governor or Member, who must sign a certificate Members, 
recommending him;* the .proposer must specify in writing the 
* Blank certificates of the form required may be had of tlie Secretary at the 
House of the Society. 
