' STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 107 



Sacramento, January 31, 1866. 



To the Officers and Members of the State Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen : — Your committee, to whom was referred the accounts, 

 books, and vouchers of the Treasurer and Secretary of the State Agri- 

 cultui'al Society for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, most 

 respectfully beg leave to report that, after a thorough investigation of 

 the same, they find them correct. 



A. C. BIDWELL, 

 CYKUS S. COFFm, 

 D. W. EARL, 

 WM. M. WARREN", 



Committee. 

 The report, as read, was adopted. 



The committee appointed yesterday to examine the various reports 

 received from Assessors in answer to a circular offering a premium for 

 the best and most complete statement of facts connected with the agri- 

 cultural interest in their especial localities, presented the following 

 reijort : 



Mr. President : — Your committee, to whom were referred the various 

 statistical and descriptive reports of the several District and County 

 Assessors of the State, have had the same under consideration, and beg 

 leave to make the following report: 



The_y have made a careful and thorough examination of these nume- 

 rous reports, and find many of them to be quite creditable to the industry, 

 fidelity, and good sense, of those who prepared them. But they have 

 arrived unanimously at the conclusion that W. V. McGarvey, the Assessor 

 of Monterey County, is entitled to the first premium of fifty dollars for 

 the very intelligent, comprehensive, and complete report, both statistical 

 and descriptive, furnished by him, and which they conceive to be more 

 strictly in accordance with the views and requirements of the Board, 

 as set forth in the circular and blanks prepared and forwarded by their 

 Secretary, than that offered by any other person. 



Your committee had some difficulty in deciding upon whom they should 

 recommend the bestowal of the second premium of twenty-five dollars, 

 but they finally concluded to favor its award to Thomas C. Birney, 

 Assessor of District Number Two, in Tuolumne County. They perceive 

 that, according to the terms of the circular, a District Assessor, as well 

 as a County Assessor, ma}^ compete for the premiums offered, and in view 

 of the manifest care and labor bestowed upon his work by Mr. Birney, 

 and his success in presenting a full and intelligible report of his compar- 

 atively small district, they regard him as clearly entitled to the second 

 premium. 



But your committee think it would be better to confer premiums upon 

 those Assessors only who will furnish both statistical and descriptive 

 reports of an entire county, whether such statistics be collected exclu- 

 sively by himself and de])uties, or be compiled from the returns of the 

 several District Assessors in any particular county. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



JOS. F. MONTGOMERY, 

 E. I. ROBINSON, 

 W. F. KNOX. 



The report was adopted. 



