EXECUTIVE MEETING. 



The Annual Meetinof of the Executive Committee was held at the 

 Society's Rooms in Detroit, on Tuesday, December 12th, 1854. The 

 meeting convened at 2 o'clock P. M., and was called to order by the 

 President. Present, 



The President, A. Y. Moore, of Schoolcraft; 



Executive Committee — John Starkweather, Ypsilanti ; Justus Gage, 

 Dowagiac; John L. Butterfield, Brooklyn; James Bayley, Big Beaver; 

 S. M. Bartlett, Lasalle ; J. W. Dickinson, Hillsdale ; P. K. Leach, Utica ; 

 Henry Metz, Detroit; Charles Dickey, Marshall. 



The meeting being organized, the Secretary read the following report : 



To the Executive Committee of the Mich. State Ag'l Soc^y: 



Gentlemen — In accordance with the requirements of the Constitu- 

 tion of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, we have assembled 

 for the purpose of examining into the affairs of the Society, and to 

 adopt such measures as you may deem advisable to pursue the ensuing 

 year. 



As some of you are now for the first time taking an active and offi- 

 cial part in these proceedings, and therefore may not have full knowl- 

 edge of what has been done in former years, I will take the liberty, in 

 making my report, to refer to the past, as well as the present, and the 

 future. 



The State Agricultural Society was organized at Lansing, on the 

 23d of March, 1849. The Legislature at the same time made an appro- 

 priation of $400 for the benefit of the Society for that year, provided 

 the Society should raise a like sum of $400 by subscriptions, or by fees 

 of membership. 



