3G2 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



The piosident appointed siu-li coinmitteo, Messrs. Younj^, Filield, 



Dewey, Clraliani, liutterlield, Skeels, Hinds. 

 A recess was taken to 7 o'clock p. m. At 7 o'clock p. m., committee 



met. The finance committee reported as follows: 



To the officers and members of the Michigan State Agricultnral So- 

 ciety: 



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Gentlemen — Your finance committee to whom was referred the ac- 

 iounts of the secretary and treasurer of the Society would report that 

 we have carefully examined the books and vouchers in the secretary's 

 otlice and have compared the same with the treasurer's re])ort and ac- 

 counts, and we find the same correct, with the exception of a clerical 

 error of one dollar made in drawing an order. 



WILLIAM UALL, 

 F. E. SKEELS, 

 JOHN McKAY, 

 Finance Committee. 



The committee on rules reported an amendment to article 5 of by-laws 

 which was ado])ted. 



The premium list committee reported a revised list with some changes 

 from that of 1900, which was adopted. 



The bond of the treasurer was fixed at $10,000, and that of the sec- 

 retary at §:i,000, and if a surety company bond the Society to pay the 

 premium on bond. 



The salaries of secretary and treasurer were fixed at the sums of 

 §575 and $250 respectively. Adjourned. 



The committee on legislation having presented a bill for an appro- 

 priation of $5,000 per year for two years to the legishiture, the bill was 

 amended and passed as follows: 



An act making an appropriation for the Michifran State A^rriciiltiival Society for 

 the fiscal years ending June 3U, l'J02, and June 30, I'.XKi. 



The people of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for the use of the Michingan State 

 Agricultural Society for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred two, 

 the sum of forty-five hundred dollars ; and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, 

 nineteen hundred three, the sum of forty-five hundred dollars. 



Sec. 2. The amounts appropriated by section one of tliis :u-t arc to be iisrd b\' sai<i 

 society for the payment of premiums to be awarded at the annual fair of nineteen 

 hundred one, and the annual fair of nineteen hundred two, on agricultural, horti- 

 cultural, manufactured and domestic products, grown or produced in the State of 

 Michigan, said premiums to be awarded under the direction of the executive com- 

 mittee of said society: Provided. Tliat said society shall award and pay the farther 

 sum of four thcmsand five himdred dollars in premiums at each of the annual fairs in 

 the years above mentioned : Provided further, That forty-five hundred dollars in 

 premiums to be paid by the Michigan State Agricultural Society shall be exclusive of any 

 premiums paid by said society for speed purposes. 



Sec. 3. The forty-five hundred dollars appropriated by this act for the fiscal year 

 ending June thirty, nineteen hundred two, shall be paid out of the general fund in 

 the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan State Agricultural Societj' on 

 presentation of a requisition signed bj- a majority of the executive committee of said 

 society, accompanied by a certificate signed by the president and secretary of said 

 society that the amount of forty-five liundred dollars has Ixcu awarded a"! paui in 

 premiums upon exhibits at the annual fair in nineteen hundred one. exclusive of any 

 premiums paid by said society for speed purposes: Provided, That within thirty 



