MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 385 



On motion of Mr. Wood, the report was accepted and adopted. 



Mr. Reed moved to reconsider the vote taken yesterday, appropriating $300 

 towards the expense of a delegate to Washington. Carried. 



A lengthy discussion was held on the adoption of the report, and was 

 participated in by Messrs. Chamberlain, Bntterfield, Ball, Fralick, Anderson, 

 Hanford, Cobb, and Hyde. 



Mr. Chamberlain moved that the question be divided and a vote taken on 

 that part appropriating $300. The motion prevailed and the amount was 

 voted. 



It was then moved and supported to adopt the balance of the report. 

 Carried. 



The delegates from the State Horticultural Society, in the following letter, 

 signified their acceptance of the invitation to exhibit with the society next fall : 



To the Executive CommUtee of the State Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen — We, as authorized delegates from the Michigan Horticultural Society 

 to confer with you concerning arrangements for a joint exhibit at the fair of 1884, 

 hereby accept the invitation and details of arrangement as proposed this day at the 

 morning session ot your committee. 



CHAS. W. GARFIELD, EVART H. SCOTT, 



Secretary, Chairman Business Committee. 



Detroit, January 16, 1884. 



The president then aanounced the committee on so much of the presidents' 

 addresses as relates to the location of the fair as follows: Me?srs. Chamber- 

 lain, Hyde, Smith,. Phillips, and Howard. 



The committee then took a recess until 3 o'clock. 



Afternoon Session. 



The committee reassembled at the hour appointed. 



Same members present as at morning session. 



President Parsons read a communication from The E. T. Barnum Iron and 

 Wire Works, inviting the executive committee to visit their works, and from 

 President J. C. Holmes of the Detroit Scientific Association, inviting the com- 

 mittee to attend a lecture to be delivered before the association on Thursday 

 evening. 



The communications were laid on the table. 



Mr. E. Haugh, representing Mr. Jacob Youngblood, presented the claim of 

 that gentleman. 



Upon motion, the matter was referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. 

 J. M. Sterling, Wm. Ball, and W. J. Baxter, with power to settle the same. 



The president then announced the following committee: 



Business Committee— W. H. Cobb, A. O. Hyde, F. V. Smith. 



On tiiat part ol the president's address relating to the Agricultural College and the 

 establislmient of an experimental station— I. H. Butterlield, Jr., F. L. Reed, C. W. 

 Young, A. J. Dean, E. W. Rising. 



On tiiat part of the address relating to crop reports— Messrs. Wm. Ball, M. P. 

 Anderson, and A. F. Wood. 



President Abbot, of the State Agricultural College, was invited to address 



the committee. He first extended an invitation to the executive committee to 



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