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We, your Committee on Finance, have examined the report of the 

 Treasurer, together with the vouchers and bills, and find all correct 

 as reported. 



(Signed) T. H. Todd, New Franklin, 

 Henry Schnell, Glasgow, 

 W. T. Flournoy, Marionville." 



The ■$100.00 expended for the furniture is deducted from the 

 fund as reported by the Finance Committee. 



8. The fund being already subject to the joint order )f the 

 Treasurer and your Executive Committee on deposit at the Mississippi 

 Valley Trust Co., there was no action necessary on the part of this 

 committee to make use of authority granted to take possession of the 

 fund and turn it over to the Treasurer. 



September 30, 1904. 

 The difference between $1,512.52 on hand Sept. 8, 1904, and 

 $i.477-6i in Trust Company on Sept.- 13, 1904, is accounted for by an 

 accretion of interest amounting to $5.09, and a draft on the fund for 

 $40.00 to pay for a couch now in use at World's Fair headquarters. 

 Thus reporting, we are, 



Yours truly, 



M. B. Greensfelder^ 

 S. A. Hoover, 



Committee. 

 Springfield, October 13, 1904. 

 M. B. Greensfelder : 



Dear Sir — If I failed to sign and approve report, it was an over- 

 sight. T do approve it; and to save time authorize you to sign my 

 name to report. 



Yours, etc., 



C. B. McAfee. 

 P. S. — Been absent for the last week. — Mc. 



J. M. Irvine — I move that the report be accepted and the com- 

 mittee be discharged. 



C. W. Steinman — I second the motion. 



The motion was carried and the report was accepted and com- 

 mittee discharged. 



Princeton, Illinois, Dec. 19, 1904. 

 To the officers and members of the Missouri State Horticultural 



Society — Greeting : 



This is to certify that the bearer, Mr. E. G. Mendenhall of Kin- 

 mundy, 111., is a duly authorized delegate from the Illinois State Hor- 



