STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCLETY. 43 



FIEST DAY — EVENING SESSION. 



The President re-announced the special committees, so that persons 

 now present, who had not before been present, might know who were 

 the members. 



At the request of the President, Judge Brown took the chair. 



Mr. Flagg — Before entering on the business of the evening, I 

 would announce that under the arrangements made, the fruit will be 

 put on exhibition in one of the rooms below, and will be locked up 

 until the examinations have been made by the committees. All the 

 fruit should be received and in place by 8 o'clock to-morrow morning, 

 thus giving until 9 o'clock for the examination of it. 



The President — Under the rule as I understand it, we will now 

 take up the order of business for the evening, which is the revision 

 of the pear and quince lists. 



Mr. Wier — The question of membershij) has not been settled yet. 



Mr. Dunlap — I think that point is settled — that we leave it just 

 as it is. 



Mr. Earle — If we leave the point I suppose it stands constitu- 

 tionally fixed at |2. We remitted $1 last year. 



Mr. Gralusha — At the time the subject was dropped the question 

 was on mj" amendment to make the subscription a dollar and a half. 



Mr. Wier moved to suspend the rules for the purpose of taking up 

 this question. 



Carried. 



The question then being on the amendment of Mr. Galusha to 

 make the subscription $1 50, 



Mr. Flagg read a statement showing the receipts from subscrip- 

 tions for the years 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, as follows : 



1865 80 members at $2 $160 



1866 128 " at $1 $128 



1867 125 " at $2 $250 



1868 161 " at $1 $161 



