. EXECUTIVE MEETING. 



The Executive Committee held its Annual Meeting at the Bidtlle 

 House in Detroit, on Tuesday, December 14th, 1852, at 12 o'clock M. 



The meeting being called to order, the President, Jos. R. Williams, in 

 the chair. 



The following members answered to their names : 



Geo. C. Munro, Ira H. Buttertield, Titus Dort, F. V. Smith, ,1. R. 

 Munro, M. Shoemaker, C. W. Green, Thos. Clark, Andrew Y. Moore. 



The Washtenaw County Agricultural Society was re{)resented by 

 John Starkweather, of Ypsilanti. 



The Macomb County Agricultural Society was represented by Payne 

 K. Leech, of Utica. 



On motion of Titus Dort, 



Resolved, That the Committee adjourn to 2 o'clock, P. M. 



Two o'clock P. M. ; Committee called to order. 



President in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report : 



To the Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural 

 Society : 



Gentlemen: — I am happy to meet you here at this, the 5th annual 

 meeting of this Committee, and it is with much pleasure that I can say, 

 that the efforts put forth by our Society, during the four years it has ex- 

 isted, to excite a laudable emulation, not only among our farming com- 



