562 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



March, 1876. 



3. Locating Committee $116 35 



4. Centennial department 13 60 



5. Constitutional Committee 35 21 



6. Easiness, printing, and transportation 52 47 



217 63 



7. Decorating halls $181 10 



8. Teaming and livery 96 00 



9. Water and fountain 11 50 



10. Carpenters, laborers, and renting booths 593 00 



11. Lumber and cartage same 610 07 



12. Hardware. 63 6G 



13. R. R. freight and storage 26 75 



1,582 08 



14. Machinery power and ground rent. §500 00 



15. Pri nting 1 ,008 01 



16. Posting bills 10 92 



1,518 93 



17. Band and band wagon $132 00 



18. Viewing Committees 42 00 



19. Lunchroom 139 06 



20. Meal tickets 213 75 



21. Hotel bills... 462 50 



22. Forage and barn rent 524 70 



23. Ladies' waiting room 20 00 



24. Marshal's assistants. 61 00 



25. Executive Committee's bills 171 26 



26. Police and gates 401 25 



27. Treasurer's office 134 80 



28. Secretary's office and salary 1,597 36 



3,899 68 



29. Medals for 1876 154 85 



30. R. R, freight refunded exhibitor 32 43 



31. Centennial Representative, Philadelphia 750 00 



32. Pomological appropriation 1,500 00 



Total expenses of fair proper $10,166 51 



Lumber sold $265 00 



Received for booth rent 1,833 50 



$2,098 50 

 And money paid to the treasurer by J. M. Sterling, Chairman. 



J, M, STERLING, 

 A, O, HYDE, 

 WM, L, WEBBER, 

 Jackson, Mich., Dec. 20, 1876. 



The undersigned Finance Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society 

 report that they have compared the foregoing report with the register of orders 

 issued, and the register with the vouchers, and find the same to agree, and to be correct. 



HENRY FRALICK, 

 E. W. RISING, 

 R. G. HART, 



Finance Committee. 



SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Executive Committee, adopted at the 

 winter meeting thereof in 1875, at Detroit, the following reports from Execu- 

 tive Superintendents of Departments at the late State Fair are submitted. 

 The report of Judge Ramsdell upon Fine Art Department has not as yet been 

 received. 



