48 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



The Pi'csiclent appointed C. H. Ross and James Lansing as tellers, 

 and declared nominations for a President now in order. 



D. Kendall, of Sacramento, nominated C. F. Eeed, of Yolo, for re- 

 election to the same position now held by him. 



Mr. Reed stated that he was not a candidate for re-election. He hoped 

 the meeting would eleCt some one else, who could give more time to the 

 responsible duties of the otflce. He had not been able to devote as much 

 time to those duties in the past year as he had desired, and had intended 

 to decline peremptorily to serve another j^ear, but as there seemed to be 

 a pretty general desire to renominate him, he had concluded to abide by 

 the action of the meeting. 



There being no other nomination, the members proceeded to ballot. 

 Upon count. Mr. Reed, having received all but a few scattering votes, 

 was declared by the Secretary the President of the society for the ensu- 

 ing 3'ear, and upon motion, the choice was made unanimous. 



Mr. Reed being called for, said : 



Gentlemen : — I thank you for the flattering unanimity with which 

 you have re-elected me to the honorable and responsible position of 

 President of the State Agricultural Societ3% I did not desire it. I did 

 not expect it. 1 have endeavored during the past unfavorable season to 

 do my duty to the society. If I have been successful in my efforts, and 

 the society has been carried successfully through a critical period of its 

 existence, you are indebted more to the skilful management and business 

 qualifications of the members of the Board and officers with whom I 

 have had the honor to be associated than to any merit of my own. 

 Since you have done me the honor to place me in the same position for 

 another term, I am in hopes that I shall have the pleasure of being 

 associated with the same officers with whom I have acted during the 

 past year. All the transactions of the Board and all their plans have 

 been charat'terized and adopted with a unanimity seldom equalled, and 

 if the same officers are continued I doubt not the future will be as 

 agreeable as the past, and that the society will continue to prosper 

 under the same management. The next business is the election of three 

 Directors, in place of Messrs. Walsh, Richardson, and Beck. [Xomina- 

 tions are in order. 



Messrs. R. J. Walsh, Robert Beck, A. G. Richardson, J. R. Crandall, 

 J. W. Shaw, D. E. Callahan, and Sylvester Tryon, were placed in nomina- 

 tion. The three last mentioned names were M'ithdrawn, and upon ballot 

 Messrs. Walsh, Richardson, and Beck received all but a few scattering 

 votes, and were declared duly elected for the term of three years. 



The meeting then adjourned to seven o'clock in the evening. 



EVENIXG SESSIOX. 



The President called the meeting to order, and called for the reports 

 of tiie committees. 



Jolin Arnold, from the committee to examine the financial reports of 

 the Treasurer and Secretary, reported that the committee had performed 

 that duty — that they found vouchers for all items of expense, with one 



