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them selected by a competent Committee, revised, stereo- 

 typed and established during a term of years, and let by 

 contract to the lowest responsible publishing house. 

 Submitted to Committee on Good of the Order. 



W. D. Hamilton, Macon county. 



To the Worthy Master and Members of the State Grange: 



Your Committee would respectfully report that while we 

 distinctly recognize the magnitude of the evils referred to 

 in the resolution, still they cannot concur in it since the 

 solution of this problem has baffled the wisdom of our 

 State Superintendents for a generation, and we do not feel 

 capable of devising a remedy with so little time for prepa- 

 ration. We would therefore recommend that this subject 

 be thoroughly discussed in our Subordinate Granges, that 

 we may be prepared to act upon this question at the next 

 meeting of the State Grange with the wisdom its import- 

 ance demands. Let us educate ourselves before we un- 

 dertake to instinct our Legislature. 



F. I. Hall, Chairman. 



The Treasurer and Secretary asked leave to refer bills 

 to the Auditing Committee. Request granted. 



Bro. Wilson moved that the members of Paradise 

 Grange be granted demits in accordance with the rules of 

 the Order. 



Bro. Foster moved to lay on the table. Motion carried. 



Bro. Farnham offered the following: 



State Grange, 111. 



Whereas, It does appear, and is an assured fact, that 

 those of our Fraternity, as well as the farmers in general, 

 having sheep, are more or less preyed upon by dogs in 

 the killing of their sheep, increasing the loss to each and 

 nearly every farmer to the sum of from five to one hun- 

 dred dollars the past year to my own personal knowledge, 

 seldom a flock of sheep escaping the ravages of dogs; and 

 believing, as we do, therefore, 



Resohed, That it is the opinion of this State Grange that 

 dogs in the State of Illinois ought to l>e tajted to pay 

 losses as expressed in the above preamble. 



Referred to Committee on Resolution*, which resolu- 



