BYE-LAWS. 
Iv 
73. In all matters of compensation ihe responsibility rests Agieement. 
with the local authorities, and not with the Council of the Koyal 
Agricultural Society of England. And this condition shall 
always bo inserted in the agreement entered into with the local 
authorities. 
74. No agreement which may be entered into with local To bo signed and 
authorities relative to the place of the Annual Country Meeting 
shall be held good unless the Corporate Seal, or where there is no 
corporation, the signature of the principal local authority, shall 
be affixed to such document. 
75. No person who shall have been shown, to the satisfaction Disqualification 
of the Council, to have been excluded from exhibiting for prizes ^' Competi- 
tors. 
at the exhibition of any society, in consequence of having been 
convicted of an attempt to obtain a prize by giving a false certi- 
ficate or any other fraud, shall be allowed to compete for any of 
the prizes offered by the Society at any of its meetings. 
Bye-Laws. 
76. No existing bye-law shall be altered, nor any new one made, 
except at the Meeting of the Council, on the first Wednesday in 
May, or the first Wednesday in December, one month's notice 
having been previously given in writing to the Council, and a 
copy of such notice having been sent by the Secretary to each of 
its Members : Provided always, that nothing in this bye-law 
shall prevent the bye-law proposed being altered or amended by 
the Council at the time it is under consideration. 
77. All bye-laws shall be entered in a book to be kept for that 
purpose, and signed by the President and Secretary for the time 
being, and new bye-laws or alterations entered therein forthwith. 
_ Passed at a Council held on the 8th of December, 1869. 
Alteration of 
Bye-laws. 
Register of Bye- 
laws. 
(Signed) 
Devonshire, President, 
H. M. Jenkins, Secretary. 
