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amount ]nin\ at each time. Such report shall also show all warrants drawn on the 

 treasurer, and the specific purpose for whigh each warrant was drawn. The secretary 

 shall also perform sucli other duties as tlie executive coininitlee siiail from time to 

 time i)rescril)e. 



Art. !>. The officers and members of the executive committee shall receive no com- 

 pensation whatever for their services (except the secretary, treasurer and business 

 committee), but all members of the executive committee, except honorary mendjers, 

 shall be entitled to have their actual necessary expenses, while en<,Mged in the perform- 

 ance of their duties as such, paid from the treasury of the society. The secretary and 

 treasurer shall be entitled to such salary annually as the executive committee .shall 

 from time to time fix. 



Art. 10. It shall be the duty of the executive committee annually to offer and awaid 

 premiums on such articles, animals, productions and implements as it may beem best 

 calculated to promote the agricultural, horticultural, manufacturing, mining and house- 

 hold interests of the State, and it shall also authorize the secretary to prepare a report 

 of all transactions of the society during the preceding year, embracing such valuable 

 reports from committees, statements of experiments, cultivation and improvements, 

 juoceedings of county soc'cties, correspondence, statistics and other matters, the pub- 

 lication of which will exhibit the condition of the agricultural interests of Michigan, and 

 a ditliised knowledge of which will, in the judgment of the committee, add to the 

 productiveness of agricultural and household labor, and therefore promote the general 

 prosperity of the State: and, as soon as practicable, the committee shall transmit such 

 report and abstract to the president of the senate for the use of the legislature. 



AuT. 11. Any person may become a member of this society for one year by paying 

 one dollar into the treasury. 



Aht. 12. The secretaries of the different county societies shall be considered corres- 

 ponding secretaries of this society. 



Art. 13. The secretary and treasurer shall give such bonds for the faithful perform- 

 ance of their duties in such sums as may be determined by the executive connnittee. 

 Said bonds to be approved by the president as to form and sufficiency of sureties, and 

 his ajiproval shall be endorsed thereon, and such bonds, and the action of the presulent 

 thereon shall be reported to the executive committee at its annual meeting, and shall 

 be subject, both as to form and sufliciency, to the action of the executive committee, 

 and when acce])ted, shall be deposited with the president for safe keeping. 



AiiT. 14. This constitution shall be altered only by a vote of two-thirds of the mem- 

 bers present and voting at an annual meeting of the society. This constitution to 

 become operative on the second ^londay in January, 1891. 



The executive committee met at Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids, on 

 ]\IoiHlay, Januai'v 14, at 8 o'clock p. m., with the following? members 

 jtresent: President Anderson. Vice President Rind<;e, Treasurer Yoiino-, 

 Secretary and ^fessrs. Fifleld, Barnes, Custard, Ball, Bovden, Jones, 

 Rice, Waldron, McKav, Hoffman, Hardy, Maynard, Reed, Bush, Dewey, 

 Graham, Hinds, Skeels, Horton and ex-President Chamberlain. 



^Minutes of meetings of August 1, PJOO, and September 24, read and 

 a])proved. 



After hearing from citizens of Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids in rela- 

 lion to the place of holding the fair of 1901, a recess was taken to 

 Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. 



Tuesday, January 15, 9 o'clock a. m., President Anderson presented 

 his address as follows: 



