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Monthly Council, April 6, 1892. 
preliminary consideration of the 
prize-sheet for the Chester Meeting 
of 1893 had been postponed until the 
meeting of the Committee on Tuesdaj', 
May 31 next. The Committee were 
of opinion that the 600?., which had 
been annually voted to the Eoyal 
Commission on Horse Breeding, 
should now be discontinued, and had 
unanimously resolved to request their 
Chairman to give notice on their 
behalf of a motion for a grant of 
6,000?. for prizes for live stock, 
poultry, and produce at the Chester 
Meeting of 1893. 
Sir Jacob Wilson inquired whether 
the Stock Prizes Committee desired 
to take the opinion of the Council 
that day upon the suggested discon- 
tinuance of the grant for thorough- 
bred stallions, or whether it was only 
desired to give notice of a motion on 
the subject. 
Mr. Sanday explained that he had 
been requested as Chairman of the 
Committee to give notice of his 
intention to move that the grant 
of 600?. should in future be discon- 
tinued. The Committee had expressed 
their opinion on the subject in their 
report, but they did not expect that 
the Council would come to a decision 
in the matter until the settlement of 
the amount to be granted for prizes 
at next year’s Meeting. 
Sir Jacob Wilson appealed to Mr. 
Sanday to postpone his motion for 
another month, in order to give the 
Koyal Commission on Horse Breeding 
an opportunity of ascertaining what 
Her Majesty’s Government would do. 
However anxious the Society might 
be to save its money, or to spend it 
in a manner more agreeable to itself, 
he did not think the Council wished 
to see the present system upset. It 
was utterly impossible for the Royal 
Commission to get information before 
May as to what the Government 
intended to do in the matter. 
Mr. Sanday replied that every- 
thing hinged upon the question as to 
whether these premiums should be 
discontinued ; because if they were 
not, the Stock Prizes Committee could 
not ask the Council for so large a 
sum as 5,000?. to be given in prizes. 
He was pledged to give notice that 
day of his intention to ask for a grant 
of 5,000?. at the next meeting of the 
Council. He thought it was desirable 
that the other matter should be settled 
at the same time. 
The subject then dropped, and the 
report of the Committee was adopted. 
Judges’ Selection. 
Mr. Sanday formally reported that 
the list of Judges for the AVarwick 
Meeting had been finally settled. 
(For list, see page xlvi.) 
Implement. 
Mr. Feankish (Chairman) reported 
that the trials of ploughs at Warwick 
had been duly carried out from the 
21st to 26th ult., and laid upon the 
table the otficial awards of the Judges. 
Letters had been read from two of 
the competitors with reference to 
these trials, but the Committee had 
approved the action of the Steward 
and Judges. Upwards of 12,000 feet 
of space had been applied for in the 
Implement Department of the War- 
wick Meeting. Correspondence re- 
specting various entries had been 
laid before the Committee, and direc- 
tions given thereon. The Committee 
had considered the regulations for 
the trials of sheaf binders to be held 
in connection with the Chester Meet- 
ing of 1893, and they recommended 
that a copy of the regulations as 
settled by them be forwarded to each 
member of Council before the next 
meeting, when a formal motion for 
their adoption would be made. 
General Warwick. 
Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell reported 
that arrangements would be made 
with the St. John Ambulance Asso- 
ciation for the establishment of an 
ambulance station on the same terms 
as last year. The Committee recom- 
mended that the usual application be 
made to the Home Secretary for the 
services of a detachment of a division 
of the Jletropolitan Police. The 
Local Committee had arranged with 
a local Bath chairman for the supply 
of ten Bath chairs for use in the 
Showyard, the rate of charge to be 
2s. per hour. 
Showyard Works. 
Mr. Clay reported that the Show- 
yard at AVarwick was enclosed with 
a boarded fence, and that the en- 
