22 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



PvKPORT 



OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE AFFAIRS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY BY THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Agriculture, to whom was 

 referred a resolution, passed by the Assembly on the twenty-seventh 

 day of January, directing the committee to investigate the affairs of 

 the State Agricultural Society, as at present organized and officered, 

 and also, to inquire into the propriety or expediency of forming 

 another State Agricultural Society, that shall hold its annual fair and 

 exhibition at San Jose, or some other central locality south of the 

 City of Sacramento, after an examination of the buildings and 

 grounds belonging to the society, and a thorough investigation into 

 the management and financial condition, together with a careful 

 review of the facts and information before us, have been concluded, 

 we submit for your consideration the following report: 



The resolution of the Assembly, under which the committee acted, 

 embraces three distinct subjects for investigation, viz: 



First — The manner in which the society was organized, and is at 

 present officered. 



Second — Its financial condition and management. 



Third — The expediency of establishing another State Agricultural 

 Society, which shall hold its exhibitions at San Jose, or some other 

 central locality. 



The committee have addressed an inquiry into each of these sub- 

 jects, and report the result in the order above named. 



HOW ORGANIZED AND OFFICERED. 



The California State Agricultural Society was incorporated under 

 an Act of the Legislature, approved May thirteenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and fifty-four, with power to purchase and hold any quantity of 

 land, not to exceed four sections, and to sell and dispose of the same 

 at pleasure. This Act provides that the -aid real estate shall be held 

 by -aid society for the sole purpose of establishing a model experi- 

 mental farm or farms, erecting inclosures, buildings, and other 

 improvements calculated and designed for the meeting of the society, 

 and for an exhibition of the various breeds of horses, cattle, mules, 

 and other stock, and for agricultural, mechanical, and domestic man- 

 ufactures and productions, and for no other purposes, and that if from 

 any cause said society shall ever be dissolved, or fail to meet within 

 the period of two consecutive years, then the real estate held by it, 

 together with all the buildings and appurtenances belonging to said 

 estate, shall be sold as lands are now sold by execution, and the pro- 

 ceeds deposited in the State treasury, subject to the control of the 

 Li gislaturt . 



