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Wednesday Afternoon, December 22, 1S75. 

 Called to order at two o'clock. 

 Koll called : qaornin present. 



The special order being to hear from the committee from Kalamazoo, in 

 regard to location of fair for 18 7G, the following letter from citizens of 

 Kalamazoo, was received and read : 

 To the President and Officers of the Michifjan State Afjricultural Societ)/ : 



Gentlemen :— The citizens of Kalamazoo, through a committee duly appointed, 

 hereby extend an invitation to you to hold your next annual fair at Kalamazoo, 

 firmly believing that our location can offer as good if not better facilities than any 

 other town in the State. A cordial invitation is also extended to the Locating Com- 

 mittee to visit with the citizens of Kalamazoo before arrangements are perfected for 

 holding your next fair. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. W. H. COBB, 



L. B. KENDALL. 

 GEO. F. REDDER, 



Committee. 



By invitation, Mr. Cobb, of Kalamazoo, addressed tlie committee. 



Mr. Greene moved, and the motion was adopted, that any parties in Detroit 



or from without, be invited to present applications for the State Fair. 



Mr. Baxter offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Besolced, That the committee on Rules and Regulations be directed to prepare 

 rules prescribing order of business and special rules for the government of this 

 Executive Committee at its business meetings, and present the same for action. 



Moved by Mr. Greene, and adopted, that the President appoint a committee 

 of three (3) on location. 



Mr. Childs, to wdiom was referred the discretionary awards in Division K, 

 reported the list of awards, which report was adopted. 



Mr. Burrington, for himself and Mr. Manning, to whom were referred 

 discretionary awards in Divisions D, L, and F, reported a list of awards to be 

 paid, which report was adopted. 



Mr. Greene, to whom was referred list of discretionary awards in Division G, 

 reported a list of awards, wliich report was received and adopted. 



Col. Shoemaker, from the special committee on Pomology, reported as 

 folloAvs, which, on motion, was adopted : 



The committee appointed to confer with the committee of the State Pomological 

 Society would report that at a meeting of the two committees there was a full and 

 fair interchange of opinions, resulting in the conclusion that it was desirable, and 

 that both committees would recommend that the exhibition be combined at the State 

 Fair for 1S7G,— as they have been for the last three years,— and that the State Agri- 

 cultural Society extend to the Pomological Society such aid pecuniarily as will enable 

 the latter to make an exhibition as creditable as those of '73, '74, and '75. 



In conferring as to the amount to be paid by the State Agricultural Society, it was 

 claimed by the committee of the Pomological Society that it was necessary that it 

 should have §1.500, the same amount as last year, for general purposes and expenses, 

 and §1,000 to offer for premiums. 



In view^ of the uncertainty as to where the next State Fair will be held, and to 

 amount of aid the Society would receive from the locality where it should be decided 

 to hold the fair, and also of the reduced amount of the funds now in the treasury of 

 the State Agricultural Society, your committee do not feel that they would be justi- 

 fied in recommending the appropriation of any specific amount, but leave that to be 

 decided by the Executive Committee after they have arrived at some conclusion rel- 

 ative to the holding of the State Fair. 



Your committee would, however, recommend that the same reduction be made from 

 the amount appropriated for premiums of the Pomological Society as may be made 

 in the premium list of the Agricultural Society, and that they may in that respect 

 stand upon an equal footing with the Agricultural Society. 



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