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FINANCES OF THE SOCIETY. 



Balance in treasury January 30th, 1870 



Unexpended appropriations 



Total receipts for the year 



('ash assets for the year 



CONTRA. 



Incidental expenses $28,428 68 



Permanent improvements 6,000 00 



Paid for real estate 5,600 00 



Total expen ditures 



Deficit in treasury 



$61 84 



2,838 00 



33,932 60 



$36,879 44 



40,028 68 



$3,149 24 



The State owes the society a balance of undrawn appropriations for 

 the year — which will soon be paid — of three thousand dollars. This 

 will reduce the deficit in the treasury, or the debt of the society, to one 

 hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents. 



THE FAIR FOR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE. 



The Board propose, with the assistance of the people of the State, to 

 make this Fair a real exposition of all the industries of the State. To 

 this end a new and comprehensive premium list will be prepared and 

 published at once, embracing the products of every industry on the 

 coast, and offering- liberal premiums for their exhibition. By personal 

 correspondence, circulars, and an extensive distribution of premium lists, 

 we propose to reach the' representatives of every industry on the coast, 

 and endeavor to wake up in them a renewed and earnest interest in their 

 development, and in the general exhibition of samples of their products 

 at the coming Fair. We propose also to secure the service of a reliable 

 and competent person to visit in behalf of and as a representative of the 

 Board every important locality in the State, for the double purpose of 

 enlisting the active cooperation of all the people in behalf of the efforts 

 of the society, and collecting valuable facts and statistics of our indus- 

 tries and resources for publication and general distribution at home and 

 abroad. In the furtherance of these objects we shall endeavor to estab- 

 lish a perfect good understanding between the State Society and each of 

 the District and County Societies now organized in regard to the times 

 of the exhibitions of each, and to form some general plan by which 

 each of such societies may be represented by the products of the indus- 

 tries embraced in their district at the general exhibition of the State 

 Society. To secure the success of this plan we hope to induce the 

 organization of industrial societies embracing every county in the State. 

 With such a system of societies, organized for such purposes, and 

 directed with an honest purpose for their accomplishment, it is believed 

 that the labor, skill, and capital of our people can be rendered much 

 more productive. 



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