482 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



exception of Article N'o. 2, bj^ wliich tlie number of the executive committee was 

 made fourteen instead of twelve. 



Section 2 was further amended at annual meeting at Kalamazoo, September 23, 

 1870, in pursuance of a notice to that effect given at the annual meeting at Jackson in 

 September, 1869, but of which notice j'our committee can find no record. The follow- 

 ing resolution was adopted: 



liesolved, That the constitution of this Societj^ be so amended as to make exec- 

 utive committee consist of twenty members, and that half be elected annually, to 

 hold their office for two years, and that one-half tlie additional members elected upon 

 this change in the constitution be elected for one year and the other half for two 

 years. 



Your commi ttee would also report that said article was also changed at an annual 

 meeting of the Society held at tlie fair ground, on "W^oodward Avenue, in the city of 

 Detroit, in amendment, with a notice given two years previous thereto, on the same 

 grounds, so as to read: 'If any member of the executive committee shall fail to 

 attend two successive meetings of said committee, duly called, and of which he shall 

 have had notice, without reasonable excuse, satisfactory to the committee, his office 

 shall be declared vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled by the executive committee.' 

 Your committee cannot give the j^ear when the change was made, nor can they find 

 any report of the same, but would say, from recollection, that it was made the last 

 year H. G. Wells acted as President of said Society. The committee can find no 

 record, and cannot speak with certainty of any further changes in the constitution, 

 and therefore, while under the impression that the same has been changed. Art. 10, by 

 doing away with life membership, and Art. 13 by requiring written notice of any 

 proposed amendment to the constitution to be given at some regular meeting of the 

 Society previous to meeting at which action shall be taken, still, as no record exists 

 of such changes, if made, and no evidence of the same, except from indistinct recol- 

 lection of members, and the usual custom and action of tlie Society in these particu- 

 lars, they deem it safer to consider the constitution on these points to be as printed. 



Respectfully, 



W. J. BAXTER, Chairman. 



Wednesday Morning^ December 22, ISTo. 



Committee called to order by the President at 9 o'clock. Roll called: 

 quorum present. 



Minutes of Tuesday's meeting read and approved. 



Mr. Webber presented the garnishee judgment from the Oakland Circuit in 

 favor of First National Bank of Pontiac, as against indebtedness of the Society 

 for premiums awarded J. C. Deyo, of Jackson, and moved that the orders for 

 Deyo's jiremiums be delivered to the First ]Si"ational Bank of Pontiac in accord- 

 ance with the judgment at the general term of the circuit court for the county 

 of Oakland, continued and held at the court house in the city of Poutiac, in 

 said county of Oakland, on Tuesday, the 21st day of December, in the year 

 18T5. Motion adopted. 



Mr. Webber j^resented the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Eesolved, That it having been rumored that, possibly by reason of this being the 

 centennial year, this Society might not hold its annual fair in the autumn of 1876, and 

 the constitution governing the Society expressly providing for annual fairs, to the 

 end that no misapprehension may exisl on the subject, it is declared that the annual 

 fair for 1876 will be held as usual. 



Mr. Sterling, from the Business Committee, reported upon the expense of 

 1875, which report was received and referred to the Finance Committee. 



Mr. Sterling, from the committee to whom was referred the subject of a 

 Speed Department, reported as follows : 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultiiral Society : 

 We, the undersigned, a special committee appointed to consider and report upon so 



