310 TRANSACTIONS OP THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



With regard to the abolition of inspection laws generally by 

 the Constitution of New York, adopted in the year 1846, the com- 

 mittee aver that the inspection laws respecting flour and the 

 appointment of inspectors of flour have not been abolished, but 

 have been virtually and substantially re-enacted and confirmed by 

 that constitution. The same sentence which contains the supposed 

 abolition, contains also the following provision, with nothing but 

 a semi-colon between them: "But nothingin thissection contained 

 shall abrogate any ofl5ce created for the purpose of protecting the 

 public health, or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, 

 tolls or purchases, or of supplying the people with correct standards 

 of weights and measures, or shall prevent the creation of any 

 office for such purposes hereafter." 



Hence the laws in relation to provisions, to meats, to grain, to 

 flour and meal, and to bread, and for the appointment of inspectors 

 of those articles, are neither abolished nor abrogated, but are 

 liable to be, and ought now to be, strictly enforced. 



F. C. TREADWELL, Sk., 

 SOLON EOBINSON, 

 J. E. SNODGRASS, 

 S. EDWARDS TODD, 

 NATHAN C. ELY, 

 W. S. CARPENTER. 

 Dr. Snodgrass suggested that the committee be continued, and 

 be requested to persevere in their eflEbrts to expose the imposi- 

 tions in adulterating the flour that is sold in our city markets. 



The Quinn Pear. 



Dr. E. Ware Sylvester, chairman of the committee to prepare 

 a report on the Quinn pear, read the following description of this 

 new variety: 



"The committee on the Quinn Knight pear (which had received 

 its name by a vote of the Farmers' Club at a previous meeting), 

 respectfully report: 



That they have examined the pears, and the trees upon which 

 they grew. The tree was imported by the late Professor Mapes 

 about sixteen years since, without a name, being labeled as one of 

 Knight's seedlings. It was placed in the front yard among the 

 evergreens, and has not received the care usually bestowed upon 

 fruit trees, yet it has made a fair growth. 



