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or two exceptions, and these were satisfactorily explained. The com- 

 mittee were entirely satisfied with the correctness of the reports and the 

 good management of the finances of the society. 



The report was adopted and the committee discharged. 



The committee on the amendments to the Constitution reported 

 favorable to those recommended by the Board, and after reading the . 

 Constitution by sections, and discussing the amendments proposed, the 

 meeting adopted the report and the amendments unanimously. They 

 make the wording of the Constitution conform to the law creating the 

 Board of Agriculture, and indicate some radical and important changes 

 in the management of the society. 



The President called the attention of the meeting to the fact that 

 there was to be a new agricultural paper, called the California Rural 

 Home Journal^ published in San Francisco soon, by T. Harte Hyatt & Co., 

 and also named the California Farmer as an old established paper, and 

 said if agriculturul papers were better supported we should have more 

 successful and intelligent farmers in our State. 



The following resolutions were then introduced, and both unanimously 

 passed : 



" Resolved^ That the thanks of the society be tendered to their execu- 

 tive officers for their very able, interesting, and complete annual report 

 made to this meeting, and that we especially commend its suggestions and 

 recpmmendations to the friends of agricultural improvements through- 

 out the State." 



" Resolved, In consequence of the unfortunate and embarrassed condi- 

 tion of the State Agricultural Society in eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 four, which precluded the possibility of an agricultural exhibition of 

 that year, the duties of the Secretary, I. N. Hoag, were peculiarly ardu- 

 ous for the new order of things; but the universally satisfactory man- 

 ner in which his duties were performed, and the increased good will to 

 the societ}^ resulting therefrom, it is hoped that the valuable services of 

 the same officer will be secured for the coming year, as likely to win 

 many more friends to the society, and increase the best interests of the 

 institution." 



The President stated that under a rule of the Board, adopted previous 

 to the last fair, " that any person who should be declared by the Judges 

 distanced for foul riding or driving in any race, should forever there- 

 after be excluded from riding or driving in a race on the society's track," 

 a Mr. Lnsk was thus excluded ; that he had promised Mr. Lusk and his 

 friends that he would call the matter up before this annual meeting for 

 its consideration and action. Mr. Lusk desired to be reinstated, and 

 this meeting doubtless had the power to reinstate if they so desired 

 to do. 



Mr. Carroll said, for the purpose of placing the subject properly before 

 the meeting, he moved that Mr. Lusk be reinstated, or allowed the same 

 privileges on the track as though no rule had been violated by him. 



The motion being seconded and stated by the President, Mr. Cai-roll said 

 as it was the first time so rigid a rule had been adopted by the society^ 

 or in the State, and as this was the first violation, perhaps it would not 

 defeat the objects of the Board in adopting it if Mr. Lusk should for this 

 violation be relieved from the severity of the penalty. 



