270 State Horticultural Society. 



REPORT OF SPECIAL FINANCE COMMITTEE. : 



Pres. Whitten. — In the absence of Mr. Greensfelder, chairman 

 of the Special Committee on Finance, who was unable to be present 

 on account of a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, I will 

 comply with his request and read the report which I have received 

 from him. Other members of the committee are also unavoidably 

 absent. 



Columbia, Mo., Dec. 7, 1904. 

 Professor J- C. Whitten, Esq., Pres. Mo. Horticultural Society, Co- 

 lumbia, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — Have received this day a letter from Mr. Geo. B. Ellis, 

 Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, notifying me 

 that the President of the Board had appointed me a member of the 

 auditing committee and to make a report at the next annual meeting 

 of the Board to be held Dec. 20, 1904, 



This will prevent me from being present at the meeting of the 

 Horticultural Society at Neosho, which is to be held on the same day, 

 I therefore hand you the report of the committee, appointed by you 

 to examine into the expenditure of a certain fund of your Societ}", 

 which I had prepared to read at the, Society meeting. Sorry I am 

 of the conflict of meetings, as I should have been glad to be with you. 



Yours truly, 



M. B. Greensfelder. 



Clayton, September 14, 1904. 

 Professor J. C. Whitten, President of the Horticultural Society of 



Missouri : 



Dear Sir — On August 3TSt, 1904, you appointed as a committee 

 M. B. Greensfelder, Clayton, Mo., chairman ; Professor S. A. Hoover, 

 Warrensburg, Mo. ; Capt. C. B. McAfee, Springfield, Mo., to act as 

 per resolutions adopted at the meeting of your Society held the 7th 

 day of June, 1904, which reads as follows : 



"I move you, Mr. President, that a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to investigate this fund of $1,000.00 or more, for which no 

 report was made to this meeting by the treasurer, ascertaining who 

 is the custodian of this fund, and (2) by whose authority they are 

 acting; (3) ascertaining from what source the fund was derived, 

 tracing it from its incipiency down (4) to the present date; (5) in- 



