TREASURERS ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1899. 19 
TESS" DISBURSEMENTS. 
Dec. 5. Order No. 66. Expenses Secretary’s office, June 7, 1898, to date. . . $422.47 
1899. ‘= 467. Secretary’s Salary, first quarter, 1899 ...1.<¢ 3. ... 200.00 
es 68. Secretary’s Salary, second quarter, 1899. ....... 200.00 
oe 69. Premiums at annual meeting,1898,....... xis 132.50 
es 70. Expenses Secretary’s Office Dec. 7, 1898, to June 2,’99 1,116.49 
s Tltasalatwors President tor 1899 cna ss os Ula kane ol tobe ee 25.00 
sf 72. Secretary’s Salary, third quarter, 1899. ........ 200.00 
oe 73. Secretary’s Salary for September, 1899 ........ 66.66 
se 74, Premiumsat summer meeting, 1899.......... 99,25 
Hs fom Salary ot lreagurety L809, wy sori. s spent oes ae 25.00 
33 76. Secretary’s Salary November and December, 1899 . . 133.34 
Were ATI CEROTIUH ANGE wove ene co abel feynstie= te sero i, 40 vee els oo 8eleF lacie fe. eter a we 298.10 
$2,918.81 
Examined and approved. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, 
Chairman Executive Board. 
LIBRARIAN’S ANNUAL REPORT. 
A. W. LATHAM. 
During the year 1899 there have been 180 books added to the society 
library, of which number sixty-two were purchased, twenty-five were period- 
icals bound up, and the balance were the reports of other societies, coming 
to us largely in the way of exchanges. If the experiment station bulletins 
had been bound, the number would have been very much increased, but so 
far, instead of binding, they are being put into pasteboard receptacles for 
further disposal. 
A partial list of the books accumulated during the year was published in 
the report of 1898 and will be found on page 194. Those received since that 
date will be published a little later. 
There is a valuable reserve of our reports in the attic of Pillsbury Hall, 
State University. On account of the inconvenience of reaching them there 
the exact amount is not known. It is hoped that before long more com- 
modious accommodations can be found for them and an accurate accounting 
“made. In the meantime they are being safely cared for by the assistant 
librarian, Mr. E. A. Cuzner. 
REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 
Your committee feel gratified to know that they have been able to as- 
sist so much during the last session of the legislature in procuring the pas- 
sage of some measures that were very essential to the progress of this 
society. 
1. The deficiency for printing our reports and the Horticulturists for 
1898 and 1899 was provided for by an appropriation of $2,500 for each year. 
2. An annual appropriation of $2,000 was secured for printing reports and 
the Horticulturists in the future. 
3. The assistance we were abie to render the bill for enlargement of the 
work in forestry. 
4. The co-operation of our committee and members in helping procure 
the appropriation for the new horticultural building at the State Experi- 
ment Station. 
