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and feel that every dollar belonging to the Society has been honestly accounted for. 

 For his important, faithfid and laborious services as Treasurer, he is entitled to the 

 best thanks of the Society,.which we unanimously ask in his l)ehalf. We greatly 

 regret that any person witii sullioient character and standing to be elected Secretary 

 of this Society, should have thought it either proper or just to make such serious 

 charges against the officers of a Society so eminently of, and belonging to, the people 

 of the State, with so little cause. All of which is respectfully submitted. 



HENRY FRALICK, 

 PIIILO PARSONS, 

 F. V. SMITH, 



Committee. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



The President announced the following standing committees: 



Business — Sterling, Hyde, and Manning. 

 Finance — Fralick, bmith, and Rising. 

 Beception — Parsons, Beckwith, and Shoemaker. 



Mr. Phillips offered the following resolution : 



Besolved, That the Executive Committee do now adjourn, to meet at Lansing, on 

 the 25th of February, 1879, at 12 o'clock noon. 



The ayes and nays being called for, the resolution did not prevail, by tiie 

 following vote : 



Ayes— Messrs. "Wood, Fralick, Phillips, Jjcckwith, Baxter, and the President and 

 Treasurer — 7. 



Nays — Messrs. Angel, Burrington, Dewej', Howard, Manning, Smith, Ball, Hyde, 

 Kipp, Parsons, Rising, Sterling, and the Secretary— 13. 



Mr. Baxter addressed the committee on the subject of restricting the entries 

 of live stock exclusively to Michigan. 



Moved by Mr. Wood, that all action taken by the committee on the report 

 of the Committee on Premium List be reconsidered. 



Adopted. 



Moved by Mr. Dewey, that the subject matter of the Premium List, with 

 instructions to report at the earliest moment practicable, be referred to the 

 Committee on the Premium List. 



Mr. Phillips moved as a substitute that the Committee on Premium List be 

 discharged. 



Not adopted. 



The motion of Mr. Dewey was then adopted. 



Mr. Fralick, from the Finance Committee, reported that the treasurer had 

 submitted his official bond and that it had been approved by the committee, 

 and recommended its acceptance. 



The report of the committee was adopted, and the bond of the treasurer was 

 delivered to the secretary to be filed. 



On motion the committee adjourned until 3 o'clock P. M. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Committee met pursuant to adjournment, tlio President in the chair. 

 No quorum present. 

 Adjourned until 4 o'clock. 

 Further adjourned until 5 o'clock. 

 Further adjourned until 7 o'clock P. M. 



