436 STATE BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



HiBBARD House, Jackson, \ 

 J ucsday Evening, Sept. 20, 1881. \ 



Meeting of the Executive Board Avas called to order by President Phillips. 



In the absence of the secretary, Mr. C. A. Harrison was chosen secretary 

 pro tern. 



On the roll call the following gentlemen responded to their names : Presi- 

 dent Phillips, Treasurer Dean, Members of Board: Messrs. Angel, Howard, 

 Hanford, Manning, Smith, Wood, Gilbert, Burrington, Harrison, Ball, 

 Fralick, Hyde, Cobb, Rising, Parsons, Butterfield, Lessiter, Chamberlain, 

 Beckwith, and Baxter. Mr. J. M. Sterling and the secretary answered to their 

 names later. 



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

 by a rising vote : 



The Executive Committee of tlie Michigan State Agricultural Society, though for 

 some time anticipating the sad event, have heard with heart-felt sorrow of the death 

 of James A. Garfield, the honored and dearly loved President of the United States, 

 from the wound received at the hands of an ignoble and detestable assassin. 



Besolved, That in the manner of tlie death of this great, good, and truly represen- 

 tative American, at the hands of an assassin, we all feel humiliation and disgrace 

 that in our native land with the freest, purest, and best government on earth, any 

 American citizen could be found so low, so vile, so base, as to take the life of the rep- 

 representative head of the nation ; 



Besolved, That in the death of James A. Garfield, in addition to our sorrow as citi- 

 zens in the loss of our chief magistrate, we all feel his loss as that of a dearly loved 

 friend, wise counsellor, and adviser; 



Besolved, That we tender to his noble and devoted widow and his orphaned 

 children, our sincere sympathy. Their sorrow is our sorrow; their lossour loss; their 

 unutterable grief the unutterable grief of this entire nation. 



The secretary took the chair and read the minutes of Saturday and Monday 

 evenings' meetings, which were approved. 



The committee appointed to confer with gentlemen wishing to make affi- 

 davit of the the time of posting their entries, offered the following : 



Your committee would respectfully report that affidavits were made by Chandler 

 H. Bills of Tecumseh, Lewis Sherwood of Ypsilanti, and on behalf of Thomas 

 Hall of Owosso, which satisfied us the letters making entries were mailed in time 

 required by the rules, and that the several entries made by them should be received. 

 That the application of Mrs. Ann Newton, though accompanied by an aflftdavit of 

 Wm. ISTewton, indicating that the same was mailed in proper time, your committee 

 considered in connection with another affidavit of a party who was at the fair at 

 Chicago, and in the secretary's office, from which place this application was sent, 

 which states with positive assurance that the application was not made out on Tues- 

 day, the 13th, when he had a conversation with said Newton at the secretary's office; 

 and further, that Mr. Newton, when advised to send such application at once, 

 expressed himself as satisfied that a day or two of delay would make no difference. 

 This, taken in connection with the envelope postmarked at Chicago, Sept. 14, 2 P.M., 

 satisfies the committee that Mr. Newton must be mistaken as to the date of sending 

 the application, and that it was not in fact mailed until the 14th, and that the rule 

 shuts out the entry. Two other papers were referred to your committee, viz.: S. 

 A. Gow of Greenville, to enter five horses; mailed at Greenville, Sept. 14; applica- 

 tion not dated; Dr. Orr, Caro, entry for three horses. No parties appeared before us 

 to make any showing on eitlier of these applications, and they are therefore reported 

 back without recommendation. 



W. J. BAXTER, 

 C. A. HARRISON, 

 Co7nmiUee. 



It was moved and supported that the report be accepted and adopted. After 

 a considerable debate, in which, Mr. Newton, Mr. Willson, and most of the- 

 members participated, the motion was carried by a rising vote of nine to three» 



