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Report  to  the  drneral  Meeting. 
other  half,  to  the  present  time,  have  refused  him  the  ordinary 
courtesy  of  a reply.  Under  these  circumstances  the  Council  feel 
that  their  duty  to  the  Society  places  them  under  the  painful 
necessity  of  resorting  to  the  extreme  measure  of  enforcing  these 
payments  by  process  issued  from  the  County  Courts  in  their 
district  throughout  the  kingdom,  against  all  Members  who  are 
more  than  two  years  in  arrear ; and  they  have  accordingly  directed 
their  Secretary  to  address  a letter  to  all  such  Members,  informing 
them  that  unless  the  sums  due  are  paid  to  him  by  Post-office 
order,  or  otherwise,  on  or  before  the  1st  of  February  next,  imme- 
diate steps  will  be  taken,  without  further  notice,  to  recover  such 
sums  in  the  County  Court  of  the  district  wherein  they  respec- 
tively reside.  The  Council  have  instructed  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee to  proceed  in  each  case  in  such  order  as  they  may  deter- 
mine, and  to  report  at  each  Monthly  Council  the  proceedings 
taken  in  furtherance  of  this  order.  When  it  is  considered  that 
the  admission  of  Members  into  the  Society  is  made  by  voluntary 
request  on  their  part,  and  that  provision  has  constantly  to  be 
made  in  advance,  by  the  outlay  of  a considerable  amount  of 
money,  to  meet  and  supply  their  privileges,  the  Council  feel 
assured  that  the  Members  of  the  Society  will  think  they  have  only 
done  their  duty  to  the  body  at  large  by  enforcing  the  regulations 
against  those  non-contributing  Members,  and  by  bringing  to  a 
final  issue  this  long-pending  and  agitated  question  of  arrears;  thus 
reducing  the  Society  to  an  efficient  body  of  contributing  Mem- 
bers, and  rendering  the  income  of  the  Society  a definite  and 
legitimate  amount,  instead  of  its  being  as  at  present,  from  the 
obstacle  of  the  arrears,  a loose  estimate,  founded  on  vague  pro- 
babilities and  unsettled  claims. 
Country  Meetings. — The  Norwich  Meeting  of  this  year  has 
proved  eminently  successful,  in  the  amount  and  character  of  the 
live  stock  and  implements,  as  well  as  in  all  the  arrangements  con- 
nected with  their  conveyance  and  exhibition.  The  Society  are 
indebted  to  Mr.  Thompson  for  a Report  on  the  Exhibition  and 
Trial  of  the  Implements  at  Norwich,  which  will  appear  in  the 
ensuing  number  of  the  Society’s  Journal.  His  period  of  office. 
