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BILLS ALLOWED AND ORDERS DRAWN. 



1882. 



December 7, Secretary's salary, third and fourth quarters $100 00 



1883. 



January 18. Balance due Secretary to January 15, 1883 25 33 



Prof. Porter, express charges paid for Society 4 40 



Treasurer J. T. Grimes, expenses at meeting Ex. Com- 

 mittee, Rochester, Sept. 6, 1882 6 85 



U. S. Hollister, secretary's expenses 5 85 



H. C. Stearns, services as reporter, annual meeting, 1883 40 00 

 J. S. Harris, expense bill as president and member seed- 

 ling committee 7 15 



J. M. Smith, expenses from Green Bay and return 25 75 



19. J. T. Grimes, salary as treasurer, 1882 25 00 



James Bowen, librarian, appropriated for incidental ex- 

 penses library *10 00 



0. Gibbs, Jr., appropriated tor expenses to Madison and 



return, as delegate to Wis. Hort. Society *20 00 



Appropriated for secretary's incidental expenses *10 00 



*To be accounted for at next meeting. 



MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



The Executive Committee met at the Metropolitan Hotel, St. 

 Paul, Monday, February 5, 1883, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the call of 

 the chairman. Present, J. M. Underwood, Chairman; Oliver Gibbs 

 Jr., Secretary; J. T. Grimes, Treasurer; 0. F. Brand, W. E. Brim- 

 hall and M. Pearce. 



Business transacted as follows : 



The Secretary, Prof. Porter and Mr. Emery, committee on legis- 

 lation, were requested to wait upon the Governor, and lay before 

 him the invitation received from the American Pomological 

 Society for a display of Minnesota fruits at their biennial session 

 at Philadelphia in September next, for such action as he may deem 

 proper. 



The Secretary was instructed to prepare a premium list and pro- 

 gram for the summer meeting, June, 1883, on same general plan 

 as that of last year, and send copies to members of the committee 

 for revision, the date of the meeting to be left open late enough to 

 set it at the best time for a strawberry exhibition. 



The committee on legislation were instructed to make the most 

 earnest efforts to have the law amended so as to permit the increase 

 of our report to 500 pages, and strike out the limit of $750 as to 

 cost of the volume. 

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