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General Meeting of Governors and Members , 
only. Neither the Council nor the 
Members were in any way committed 
to it. The whole matter would receive 
careful consideration before anything 
was done, and every Member would 
have a draft of the suggested bye- 
laws sent to him before the date of 
the Special Meeting convened to 
sanction them. 
Mr. Arthur E. Clarke (of 
Messrs. Garrard, James & Wolfe, 
Solicitors to the Society), then ex- 
plained certain points in the draft of 
the new Charter, the chief provisions 
of which were as follows 1 : — 
Notwithstanding the terms of the 
original Charter or anything therein 
contained to the contrary the hye-iaws 
enacted hy the Council of the said 
Society may from time to time with 
the sanction of a General Meeting of 
the said Society prescribe or provide 
with respect to all or any of the 
following matters namely 
(a) The number of General Meet- 
ings of the Governors and Members 
of the said Society to beheld in each 
year and the day place and time at 
which every or any such General 
Meeting shall he held hut so that 
there shall be at least one General 
Meeting in each year which shall he 
called the Annual General Meeting 
at which the President Trustees 
and Vice-Presidents shall he elected 
and the election of the ordinary 
Members of the Council of the said 
Society in the place of those vacat- 
ing office shall take place or he re- 
ported or taken cognizance of. 
(5) The summoning and holding 
of and the proceedings at General 
Meetings of the said Society in- 
cluding the voting at such meetings 
and whether by show of hands with 
or without a poll (if demanded) or 
hy ballot or voting papers and with 
or without power to vote hy proxy 
and the quorum necessary for a 
General Meeting. 
(c) The number and period of 
office of the Trustees Vice-Presidents 
and ordinary Members of the 
Council of the said Society respec- 
tively and the period of office of the 
President. 
(d) The election of the ordinary 
Members of the Council of the said 
Society so that instead of being 
elected hy the Governors and 
Members at large in General Meeting 
assembled such ordinary Members 
shall be elected by divisions of the 
said Society comprising the Gover- 
nors and Members residing in 
electoral districts and the number 
and area of such electoral districts 
respectively the number of Members 
of Council to he returned by every 
1 These provisions include the legal 
amendments subsequently approved by 
the Meeting. 
or any division and the qualifications 
mode of nomination and election and 
the removal resignation continuance 
in office and duties and powers of 
such ordinary Members of the 
Council and the evidence to be fur- 
nished of their election and the 
method of reporting or taking cog- 
nizance thereof and the mode of 
filling casual vacancies arising hy 
death resignation or otherwise. 
(e) The 'addition to the Council 
of Members being Governors or 
Members of the said Society to be 
from time to time appointed by the 
Council and being persons distin- 
guished in science or engaged or 
interested in some industry con- 
nected directly or indirectly with 
agriculture whose presence on the 
Council is considered by the Council 
desirable and the qualifications 
nomination removal resignation con- 
tinuance in office and duties and 
powers of such Members of the 
Council hut so that not more than 
ten persons so appointed shall at 
any one time he in office. 
(/) The holding of representative 
Meetings of the said Society con- 
sisting (1) of such Governors or 
Members elected by divisions of the 
said Society and (2) of such Members 
of the Council as may he determined 
in accordance with the hy e-laws and 
the mode in which each division is 
to elect its representatives for any 
representative Meeting and the 
evidence to he furnished thereof 
and the qualification for election and 
the quorum and proceedings at 
representative Meetings and the 
powers authorities and discretions 
thereof and what matters (if any) 
may only he submitted to General 
Meetings of the said Society on the 
recommendation of representative 
Meetings. 
(g) The repeal alteration modifi- 
cation or suspension of any such 
bye-laws. 
Mr. John McLaren moved, and 
Lt.-Col. Surgeon Ince seconded, the 
amendment of Section (a) by the 
addition of the following words : — 
“ And that there shall be at least one 
country meeting in each year, held in 
regular annual sequence in the various 
territorial and electoral districts.” 
The President stated that Section 
( a ) had no reference to the Show, and 
Mr. Clarke explained that the bye- 
laws to be made under the Charter 
could prescribe any number of 
meetings. He suggested that the 
Society should not curtail its liberties 
by putting too much into the Charter. 
They should have the widest liberty 
under the Charter. 
After some further discussion, the 
amendment was negatived, and 
