INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 4^1 



Prof. Troop: I will road -where we have made the changes. 



See page 7 for new constitution. 



Sjivester Johnson: I move you that this report be accepted and 

 adopted. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



President Stevens: • Is there any other committee ready to report 

 at this time? 



Mr. Stout: The Auditing Committee is ready to report. 



President Stevens: We will now hear this report. 



Mr. H. M. Stout: We, the Auditing Committee, have carefully exam- 

 ined the accounts of the Secretary and Treasurer, and find a balance 

 of $43.50 overpaid in fees by the Secretary. 



We recommend, in order to simplify matters, that the Secretary 

 be required to receipt for all moneys that come into his hands, and 

 that the Treasurer receipt to the Secretary. 



H. M. STOUT, 

 H. H. SWAIM. 

 L. B. CUSTER. 



It was moved and seconded that this report be accepted and adopted, 

 which was unanimously carried* 



A Member: The Secretary's report j-esterday made mention of funds 

 used to hire plates for this Society, and I thought that I understood 

 it to be three or four dollars. If that is right, we had better buy 

 plates for this Society, and leave them packed here from year to year. 



Secretary Flick: I will say in regard to this that we use the plates 

 but once a year, and we have no secure place to keep them while 

 they are not in use. We tried this in our county Society once, and found 

 that it cost more in the long run than to rent them. I think it would be 

 best to rent the plates. Five hundred plates would cost $G0 to $70. 



Mr. Davis: I understood it cost three or four dollars, and I thought 

 if it were that much we would better b\iy. as we could afford to. 



Mr. Flick: We have to pay for the broken plates when we rent, 

 of course. The rent is 75 cents per hundred. 



Mr. Johnson: It seems to me we ought to purchase the plates if 

 wo had room for thom so that they would be safe from year to year: 

 but there is not a place in hero where they would be safe. If we put 



