583 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



BT-LAWS. 



1st. Oflioers shall perform such duties, subject to the control of the Association, 

 usually required in similar organizations. The Executive Committee shall have the 

 general oversight and management of the business of the Association in the interval 

 between its meetings. The' President shall appoint at the opening of each annual 

 meeting the following standing committees: Oa Topics and Arrangement of Busi- 

 ness; on Legislation, and such other committees as the meeting maj- direct. 



2d. The order of business at the annual and other meetings shall be: 



1. Address by the President. 



2. Report by the Secretary. 



3. Appointnient of Standing Committees. 



4. Address by some person previously chosen. 



5. Report of Committee on Topics. 



6. Report of Committee on Legislation. 



7. Unfinished Business. 



8. New Business. 



i). Election of officers. 



3d. Each society is requested and expected to contribute the sum of one dollar 

 annually to aid in defraying the necessary incidental expenses of the association. 



The Association then made choice of officers for the ensuing year as follows : 



President — Charles H. Richmond, Ann Arbor. 

 Vice-President — C. L. Whitney, Muskegon. 

 Secretary and Treasurer — Frank Little, Kalamazoo. 



I I. H. Butterfield, Jr., Lapeer. 

 Ex. Committee, -s M. B. Hine, Austerlitz. 



( D. D. Antes, Centreville. 



A vote of thanks was extended to officers of the Agricultural College and to 

 Kev. L. B. Potter, of Lansing, for courtesies extended. 



Ann Arbor was selected as the place for the next annual convention. 

 Convention then adjourned. 



A. C. GLIDDEN, 



Preside nL 

 Fkank Little, Secretary. 



Kalamazoo, January 20, 1879. 



ASSOCIATION OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF MICHIGAN. 



The following table embraces all the known organizations in the State, with 

 such statistical information in regard to eacli as the Secretary was enabled to 

 gather in response to circulars sent to all since the Lansing convention. It is 

 hoped that hereafter the Societies of the State will respond more fully to this 

 feature or the work of the Association. 



FRANK LITTLE, Sec'y. 



Kalamazoo, Mich., March 1, 1879. 



