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Report to the General Meeting. 
way, an arrangement which that Company considerately remarks 
in conveying the grant, " will give the exhibitors the benefit of 
the reduction, should they sell any of their stock or implements 
previously to returning from the show :" — the Newcastle and 
Carlisle Railway Company agree to convey all stock and imple- 
ments, as well as the persons in charge of them, at half-fares, 
either going to or returning from the Show ; also, in case the 
Council decide to have any ploughing-match, or other exhibition 
of practical trial, a few miles from Newcastle, they are willing to 
convey the ploughs and horses, together with the ploughmen and 
attendants, to and from the place of such exhibition free of any 
charge whatever : — the Newcastle and Darlington, and the Mid- 
land Counties Railway Companies decline to accept half-fares, 
but are willing to give a free back-passage to such implements or 
stock as shall have already paid the full charges in proceeding 
along their respective lines to the Show. 
In order to complete the schedule of information required by 
the exhibitors, the Council have directed a statement to be drawn 
out of the various conveyances and rates of charge by Sea from 
every point of embarkation along the eastern coast to Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, where the authorities have obtained for the Society 
certain reductions in the port dues in favour of exhibitors at the 
meeting. 
At the date when the Council arranged their first succession of 
the rotation of districts for the Country Meetings, ending with 
the South Wales district as the one intended for the meeting of 
1847, they had not ascertained by actual experience the indis- 
pensable necessity of railway accommodation. With a knowledge 
of the absence of adequate railway accommodation throughout 
South Wales, and the consideration that the Bristol Meeting of 
1842, and the Shrewsbury Meeting of 1845 had been held within 
the reach of the Principality, the Council have felt themselves 
compelled to abandon their intention of holding the meeting of 
the Society for 1847 in the South Wales district. 
The Council have decided on the following as the districts of 
