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amounting to $10G.O0. Discretionary premiums recommended, $5.00. Total, 

 $201.00. 



Eeport with recommendations adopted. 



Mr. Burrington, Superintendent of Division J, reported that the premium 

 on Display of Vehicles had been divided, and one-half the amount awarded on 

 Display of Carriages, and one-half on Display of Farm Wagons. Total pre- 

 miums awarded in the department, $203.00. Of this amount 856.00 is for 

 discretionary premiums recommended by the Viewing Committee, and con- 

 curred in by tfie Superintendent. 



Eeport with recommendations accepted and adopted. 



Mr. Cobb, Superintendent of Division B, reported total awards, in that 

 department, $2,689.00. 



Eeport accepted and adopted. 



Superintendent Baxter, of Division H, reported total premiums awarded in 

 that department as $92.00. 



The report was accepted and adopted. 



Mr. Wood, Superintendent of Division P., reported premiums awarded on 

 enumerated articles in that department as $26.00, and recommended discre- 

 tionary premiums amounting to $15.00 in cash and two diplomas. 



The report with recommendations was adopted. 



Mr, Eising, Superintendent of Forage, reported the amount expended for 

 hay and straw as $1,032.13. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Henry Haynes, asking the 

 Society to award him the Free Scholarship offered to them by the ''American 

 Veterinary College of New York." 



On motion the application was referred to the President with power to 

 appoint. 



Meeting adjourned. 



J. C. STEELING, Secretary. 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT THE 



ANNUAL WINTEE MEETING. 



FIRST DAY. 



Detroit, January 8, 1883. 



The regular annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the Michigan 

 State Agricultural Society opened in the parlors of the Michigan Exchange 

 this evening, President Hon. Henry Fralick in the chair. 



The roll was called and the following members answered to their names : 



President Fralick, Treasurer Dean, Messrs. Sterling, Eising, Ball, Lessiter, 

 Cobb, Mitchell, Hyde, Smith, Burrington, Wood, Chamberlain, Parsons, 

 Angel, Howard, Butterfield, Baxter, and the Secretary. 



President Fralick read his annual address, as follows : 



