554 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



are busy, the attendance was unusually large; but we sbould like 

 to see a trial with no spectators but the judges and drivers of the 

 machines. The result to us was far from satisfactory. 



The receipts and expenditures during the past year, have been 

 as follows : 



Balance on hand, _ $142 21 



Life-memberships, _ 70 00 



Annual members and other sources, 932 79 



State appropriation, _ 91 00 



$1,236 00 

 Expended for premiums and expenses, $1,010 58 



Balance on hand, 225 42 



■ $1,236 00 



Officers for 1857 : — President, Wm. T McCoun, Oyster Bay, 

 and six Vice-Presidents; Cor'g Sec'y and Treasurer, John Harold, 

 Hempstead; Rec'g Sec'y, Robert Willets, Flushing, and six Man- 

 agers. JOHN HAROLD, Cor^g Secretary. 



RENSSELAER. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Rensselaer County Agri- 

 cultural Society was held at the Court House, in the city of Troy, 

 January 20th 1857. Hon. Gideon Reynolds, President, was 

 absent, and George Vail, Esq., Vice President, was called to 

 preside. 



There were no competitors for field crops. 



B. Starbuck, from the committee to examine the Treasurer's 

 accounts, reported the examination made, and that the accounts 

 were found correct. The Treasurer then read his annual report 

 as follows : 



The receipts of the treasury, from all sources, since the last 

 annual meeting, have been as follows, viz : 



Balance of last year's account, $283 00 



Rec'd from Treasurer of the State of New-Yo7}/j 180 00 



Rent of stands for sale of refreshments, „ 50 00 



Received from Annual Members, , ,,-. 542 00 



" " Life Members,.. . . 100 00 



