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" To the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 



" The Committee appointed by the State Agricultural Society to exa- 

 mine the books of the Secretary, and the books and report of the 

 Treasurer of the Society, have had the same under consideration, and 

 beg leave to report : 



" That they find the receipts and expenditures, as stated in the Report, 

 correct. They find that the books of the Society are kept on correct 

 principles, and in a neat and business-like manner, and they find nothing 

 but what shows that the receipts and expenditures are stated correctly. 

 The Secretary has afforded your Committee every possible facility in 

 producing vouchers and making explanations to facilitate them in their 

 investigations. 



" Some of the Expenditures at Milwaukee, during the Annual Fair, 

 held in the month of October last, your Committee look upon as not 

 warranted, or calculated to promote the interests of the Society, howe- 

 ver your Committee feel it due to the Secretary to state, that this was 

 owing to circumstances beyond his control — the particulars being for 

 expenditures at the United States Hotel, and for what is called refresh- 

 ments at the President's tent on the Fair grounds. 



" Your Committee would further say, that with these exceptions, they 



are satisfied that the financial affairs of the Society have been conducted 



with fidelity. 



JOSIAH F. WILLARD, 



JOHN B. SMITH, 



N. M. DONALDSON, 



Madison, Jan. 19, 1853. Committee. 



Which said Report was adopted. 



A. F. Pratt, Esq., of Waukesha, moved that a Committee of five be 

 appointed to select, and recommend the names of persons suitable to fill 

 the various offices of the Society ; which was agreed to. 



And the President appointed as such Committee, Messrs. A. F. Pratt, 

 of Waukesha ; Mason C. Darling, of Fond du Lac ; Horace A. Tennet, 

 of Madison ; Josiah F. Willard, of Janesville ; and Hiram Barber, of 

 Juneau. 



