Tuesday , August 1, 1905. 
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Result of Elections of Ordinary Members 
of Council. 
The Chairman said that under the 
new bye-laws it was his duty as 
President to report to the Annual 
General Meeting the names and ad- 
dresses of the ordinary Members of 
the Council who had been elected by 
Divisions (Bye-law 86), in order that, 
in the words of Bye-law 74, the meet- 
ing might “ take cognisance of the 
election of ordinary Members of the 
Council in place of those vacating 
office ” (who this year were the whole 
of the old Council). 
This duty he formally fulfilled by 
placing before them the list printed 
on the agenda paper. There were 48 
divisions entitled under the new 
system to elect ordinary Members of 
the Council, 43 of these sending up 
one Member, 4 two Members and 1 
(London) three Members : total, fifty- 
four Members of Council. In 4 con- 
stituencies — Cornwall, Dorset, Essex, 
and South Wales — no effective nomi- 
nations had been made, and these 
vacancies would have to be filled up 
by the Council under Bye-law 90. 
For the moment, therefore, only fifty 
Members of the new Council had been 
acutally elected. Of these, twenty-six 
were Members of the old Council, 
including two, who, having been 
elected only in April last, might be 
said to be practically new Members. 
The other twenty-four they would 
have the pleasure of welcoming as 
colleagues for the first time at the 
meeting of the new Council convened 
for that afternoon. 
In 29 of the 44 divisions of the 
Society who had sent these fifty 
gentlemen to represent them, there 
was never more than one candidate 
nominated, and the provisions of Bye- 
law 83 therefore applied. In each of 
4 other districts there was originally 
one more candidate than there were 
vacancies to be filled, but one retired 
before the day of polling arrived. In 
the remaining 11 districts there were 
contested elections, which were con- 
ducted by voting papers issued in 
accordance with Bye-law 85. In 
practically every case the majority of 
the successful candidate was a sub- 
stantial one. 
The elections were conducted under 
the supervision of a Sub-Committee, 
consisting of Lord Middleton (ex- 
President), Sir Nigel Kingscote, and 
himself ; and the actual counting of 
votes was done under the superinten- 
dence of the Sub-Committee (who had 
attended for the purpose on Monday, 
July 24) by the three Auditors of the 
Society’s accounts appointed by the 
Members themselves, who very kindly 
acted as scrutineers. The cordial 
thanks of the Sub-Committee, the 
candidates, the voters, and the Mem- 
bers generally were due to these three 
gentlemen for spending a very hot 
day in sorting out and counting up 
some 1,600 voting papers. 
Suggestions of Governors and Members. 
The Chairman, in putting the 
usual question as to whether any 
Governor or Member had any obser- 
vation to make or suggestion to offer 
that might be referred to the Council 
for their consideration, adverted to the 
financial result of the recent Show at 
Park Royal. He said that the situa- 
tion required patience and calmness, 
if the best interests of the Society 
were to be safeguarded, and he felt 
confident that it would be their wish 
to give the new Council, reinforced as 
it had been by so many fresh Members, 
adequate time to consider in all its 
bearings the difficult, but he hoped 
not irretrievable, position in which 
the Society, after two generations of 
usefulness, now unfortunately found 
itself. 
Surg.-Lt.-Col. Ince suggested the 
abandonment of Park Royal and the 
disposal of the Society’s present house, 
these being two incumbrances which, 
he thought, the new Council would 
be fully justified in parting with. 
Mr. Ernest Hamlyn said that, as 
one of the candidates for a seat on 
the Council nominated for Surrey, 
and having fought the election, he 
should like to say a few words. Having 
applied to the Secretary of the Society 
for a list of the Members resident in 
his division, he was surprised to find 
how few men he really knew were 
Members of the Society. There were 
in Surrey masters of staghounds and 
foxhounds, brewers, distillers, and 
other men who obtained their revenue 
