STATE OF NEW-YORK. 



No. 63. 



IN SENATE, March 9, 1843, 



ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW-YORK STATE AGRI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY, FOR 1842. 



To the Hon. Samuel Young, 



Secretary of State: 



The Executive Committee of the New-York State Agricultu- 

 ral Society, in compliance with article 4th of the Act for the Encour- 

 agement of Agriculture, passed on the 5th clay of May, 1841, 



Respectfully Report: 



That the Committee, in accordance with a by-law of the Society, 

 have held monthly meetings, in almost every instance attended by a 

 quorum of the Committee, at which such measures have been adopt- 

 ed as seemed to them calculated to promote the important objects 

 indicated in the act referred to, and to secure which, the Society has 

 been made the recipient of the bounty of the Legislature. 



At a meeting of the Committee, held in the city of Albany on the 

 16th of February, it was determined to hold the annual fair of the 

 Society in the city of Albany, on the 27th, 28th and 29th days of 

 September, and a premium list was adopted, appropriating to this 

 object nearly $2,000. 



In appropriating to this purpose so large a sum, in addition to the 

 unavoidably large expenses of the Society, the Committee relied up- 



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