28 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



Amount brought forward, § 



Superintendents and gate-keepers at fair, 582 25 



Miscellaneous expenses of fair, 1,213 27 



Clerks and assistants at fair, 505 50 



Premiums paid at Watertown, 4,366 09 



For completing Agricultural rooms, 3,495 77 



Notes paid,. _ _ . . 3,000 00 



$18,933 06 



Treasury in advance, $955 07 



Appropriations in Supply bill for moneys advanced 



to complete rooms, salary of Entomologist, &c,_ 4,595 77 

 Which when received, will leave a balance in 



treasury, of '§1,140 70 



The report of the Executive Committee was then read by the 

 Secretary; and on motion of Hon. T. I. Chatfield was adopted. 



On motion' of George Clarke, Esq., the rules of the House of 

 Assembly were adopted, for the government of the deliberations of 

 the meeting. 



On motion of Hon. T. C. Peters, 



Resolved. That no person be permitted to speak more than 

 once, and longer than five minutes, upon the same subject, with- 

 out permission of the Society 



Mr. Clarke called for the consideration of the following proposed 

 amendment to the Constitution, of which notice was given at the 

 last annual meeting : 



" Section 5th. The Society shall, at its annual meeting in 1857, 

 permanently designate one, two or three places, as a majority of 

 said meeting may elect, for holding, in future, the annual fairs or 

 exhibitions of said Society," 



And sustained his motion in some appropriate remarks. 



Mr, Burroughs opposed the proposition: It would be unwise, 

 impolitic and unjust. He trusted the motion would, to-day, re- 

 ceive its death-blow. 



Mr. Clarke was willing to have the matter now definitely settled. 

 'He wished to have the points selected, Albany, Syracuse and 

 Buffalo. 



