Report to the General Meeting. 
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or the amount of the arrears for 1846, nearly one-half has 
been discharged during the last ten days. 
They have also reported that the capital of the Society in- 
vested in the public funds stands at 7000Z. stock, and that the 
current cash balance in the hands of the Society's bankers on the 
1st inst. was 1395/. 
The Auditors will lay before the Members the Half-yearly 
Balance-sheet of Accounts as audited by them on the part of the 
Society. 
In filling up the vacancy in the list of Trustees, occurring 
through the lamented decease of Mr. Handley, by the unani- 
mous election of Lord Portman to that office, the Council have 
recorded on their minutes an expression of their deep sense of 
the severe loss the Society has sustained in the removal from its 
Councils of one so intimately connected with its existence and 
establishment as one of its founders. 
In conclusion, the Council beg to congratulate the Members 
on the increasing usefulness of the Society, and on its steady 
progress in the prosecution of those national objects for which it 
M'as founded. They feel, however, that it is only by the indivi- 
dual interest and co-operation of its numerous Members, each 
within his local sphere, in carrying out its practical views, that 
its ^^gour and \4tality can be efficiently maintained. And they 
repeat the invitation to the Members at large, to favour the 
Council not only with their attendance at the Weekly Meetings 
in London, and at the Meetings in the Country, but also from 
time to time with such practical suggestions and communications 
of interesting facts connected with the various topics of agricul- 
tural improvement as may promote both the objects of the 
Society and the public good. 
By order of the Council, 
(Signed) JAMES HUDSON, 
Secretary. 
London, Dec. 9, 1846, 
