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Class 64, Xo, 420, Vol. 2 medal 



" '• 422, " m 00 



" " 423, " 100 



" '^ 425, " - 2 00 



" " 428, " - medal 



DIVISION N. 



Class66, Xo. 430,Yol.2 1 00 



" '• 431-2," - -- medal 



« " 322, '• 1 00 



" " 323, " 1 00 



" •• 334-0," Display of Earthen and Terra Cotta ware diploma 



Your committee would remark that the commendable efforts of Viewing Commit- 

 tees and Superintendents to secure notice of all articles exhibited deserves especial 

 notice; and if in their earnest desire that no meritorious exhibit should be over- 

 looked, they liave recommended premiums in such number and amount that the funds 

 of the Society and justice to successful competitors for regularly offered premiums 

 require careful scrutiny and judicious curtailment at our hands, their thoroughness, 

 zeal and earnest desire to give universal satisfaction deserve commendation. Your 

 committee feci impelled, however, to urge upon Superintendents in cliarge a careful 

 examination of the books of Viewing Committees after their work of examination 

 is completed, and before cards or ribbons are given out, that expectations may not 

 be raised of receiving premiums, which must inevitably be disappointed. In some 

 whole classes, and even divisions, this does not appear to have been done at our last 

 exhibition, and every article exhibited, or so nearly so, that an omission is the 

 exception and not the rule, has been recommended for special or discretionary pre- 

 miums, to an amount in many cases larger than the market value of the exhibit. 



This must necessarily lead to a good deal of disappointment, and in many cases, 

 no doubt, to an impression that exhibitors have not been treated with proper con- 

 sideration and I'espect. 



Respectfully submitted, W. J. BAXTER, 



J. M. STERLING, 

 HENRY FRALICK, 

 Committee. 



The report was accepted and adopted. 



MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. 



The Treasurer, Mr. Dean, presented a claim of Max Ilochgraef for engrav- 

 ing medals in 18T(3. 



On motion of Mr. Dean the claim was allowed and ordered paid. 



Mr. Hampton of Detroit, an exhibitor of cider making machinery, addressed 

 the Committee upon the subject of exhibiting such machinery in Machinery 

 Hall. He thouglit he had a right to space in such hall, and desired some 

 action upon the mutter. 



Mr. Baxter moved, as tlie sense of this Committee, that the rule forbidding 

 the sale of articles by exhibitors for premiums be strictly enforced. Carried. 



Mr. Greene presented an invitation from the Manager of the Free Press, to 

 visit and inspect tluit office. On motion of Mr. Greene, the invitation was 

 accepted. 



An invitation to visit the boot and shoe factory of Pingi'ce & Smith was also 

 accepted. 



The President presented the invitation of Mr. Lasier, to visit the Board of 

 Trade at 3 o'clock. On motion of Mr. Parsons, the invitation was accepted. 



The following was offered by Mr. Shoemaker: 



liesolved, That the thanks of tlie Executive (Committee of the State Agricultural 

 Society be, and are hereby, tendered to lion. Pliilo Parsons for the hospitable and 

 elegant manner in which they were entertained at the reception given at his house 

 on the evening of the 14th inst. 



Adopted. 



The Committee then took a recess until 2 P. M. 



