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OF THE 
FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
lfcOYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
The Annual General Meeting was held on the 9th June, 1893, at the 
Lecture Room of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George 
Street, Westminster. 
Lieut.-General R. J. Hay, C.B., Director of Artillery, took the Chair. 
Among others present were Lieut.-Generals E. F. Chapman, C.B., 
and Sir W. Stirling, K.C.B.; Major-Generals E. Markham, A. H. W. 
Williams, and W. L. Yonge; Colonels J. B. Richardson, C. Trench, 
W. S. Curzon, E. H. Holley, G. Burgmann, and A. Burton-Brown. 
Chairman —Gentlemen, in the first instance I would like to explain 
to you how it is that I find myself in the Chair to-day. The reason is 
that Sir Robert Biddulph has had to go with His Royal Highness the 
Commander-in-Chief down to Hounslow and Kneller Hall to inspect 
there to-day, and I come next as senior. 
I now invite the Secretary to read the Annual Report. 
The Secretary read as follows:— 
During the past year there has been another large accession of mem- Annual 
bers to the Institution, but the increase does not appear to be so ep01 ‘ 
considerable as it really is owing to the large number that have availed 
themselves of the New Rule, viz. : that members joining after the 1st 
October, in any year, do not become liable for an annual subscription 
until the 1st April following. 
The fact that Cadets passing out of the R.M. Academy are not com¬ 
missioned at once is found injurious to the Institution; the majority 
join as soon as gazetted, but some do not; in order to remedy this the 
Committee bring forward proposition No. 1, which, if passed, will allow 
a Cadet or Militia Officer to join the Institution as soon as he has 
passed the usual tests for a commission in the Regiment; the Com- 
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