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recommended by the Council was unanimously adopted. A 
circular letter was subsequently addressed to all the members 
residing in the county, informing them of this change, and 
earnestly appealing to them to exert their personal influence in 
order to effect an object, the accomplishment of which the 
General Meeting had declared to be essential to the well-being 
of the Society. The time that has elapsed has been too short 
to allow of a conclusion as to the ultimate success of this appeal; 
but the election of five or six county members which has 
already taken place is an auspicious beginning, and appears to 
the Council to warrant the hope of a revival of that zealous 
support which the Society formerly enjoyed on the part of the 
inhabitants of the county, and deprived of which it must 
contract the sphere of its operations, and abandon the high 
position which it has hitherto maintained. 
The Council consider the arrangement made with Mr. 
Charlesworth at the commencement of 1855, in other respects 
very satisfactory, but since its success, as regards the finances 
of the Society, is still doubtful, they have for the present only 
extended it to another year. The Honorary Secretaries offer 
the continuance of their services for the same period. 
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