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Bills were approved and ordered paid as follows: 
A. W. Latham, Secretary, premiums paid at annual (1897) | 
EEOC EMILE LE ceca ela hols orn etd ef AR ay BPRS ere cle ais bee ote 4 Slee Rite Seay 106.25 
Clarence Wedge, expense of executive board and of orchard 
BR CET CUA Cie. eye sas eee one ee less ti dh doors wn ard ormsoiel a aie gars $ 22.06 
Adjourned sine die 
A. W. LATHAM, Secretary. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman of Executive Board. 
March 7, 1898, Secretary’s Office, Minneapolis, 4 p. m. 
The following members were present: S. B. Green, J. S. 
Harris, J. M. Underwood, J. P. Andrews, Wyman Elliot and 
A. W. Latham. 
The chairman, Wyman Elliot, not being present at the 
beginning of.the meeting, J. P. Andrews was chosen chairman 
pro tem. 
Wyman Hlliot was elected chairman of the executive board 
for. the current year, and A. W. Latham, secretary, at an 
annual salary of $800.00. 
The salaries of the president and treasurer were fixed at 
$25.00 each for 1898, the president, however, declining to receive 
any salary for his services. 
The president and secretary were authorized to solicit contri- 
- butions forafund to be tendered to Mr. P. M. Gideon in 
recognition of his services to the state in the propagation of 
seedling apples. 
The horticultural section of the 1898 state fair premium list 
as prepared by Messrs. Elliot and Latham was examined and 
approved. 
Adjourned sine die. 
A. W. LATHAM, Secretary. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman Executive Board. 
June 25, 1898, Armory Hall, Agricultural School, St. Anthony 
Park. 
All the members were in attendance. 
The following bills were audited and ordered paid : 
A. W. Latham, expenses of secretary’s office, etc............. $655.32 
‘6 premiums summer meetings, 1898............ 68.50 
J. S. Harris, expenses of executive board...........0.....+....: 12.85 
