12 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Treasurer Moore : Do you want this before the meeting 

 closes ? 



Mr. Hale : Sometime before the session is over. 



Secretary Miles : I have been thinking over this very point, 

 and commencing January ist, 1904, I have classified our 

 expenses somewhat so that it will be a very simple matter in 

 future for the Treasurer and Secretary to report as has been 

 suggested. Mr. Moore, our Treasurer, on his books, I presume, 

 does not state what an order is drawn for ; in making payment 

 he simply states the amount and to whom. Of course, on my 

 books I record what the order is drawn for. 



Mr. Hale : Mr. President, would it not be in order to accept 

 these reports and place them on file? 



On motion of Mr. Hale the Secretary and Treasurer's reports 

 were then accepted and ordered placed on file. 



The Auditing Committee reported through Mr. Staples, the 

 Chairman, that the books of the Treasurer and Secretary had 

 been examined and found correct. 



The President : We will now take up the reports of the 

 Standing Committees : first the Committee on Legislation, Mr, 

 J. C. Eddy, Chairman. 



Report of Committee on Legislation. 



Mr. President and Members of tJie Connecticut Pomological 

 Society: 

 At the last annual meeting the Legislative Committee were 

 instructed to represent the Society before the Legislature then 

 in session, in regard to several matters of interest to fruit 

 growers. 



First, was an amendment to an Act Concerning Insect Pests, 

 requiring the shipper of any nursery stock into this State to 

 furnish a certificate that the stock had been fumigated. The 

 amendment and Act is as follows : 



(See Pubhc Acts, 1903, page 39, chapter 88.) 

 Another matter along the same line was an amendment giv- 

 ing additional powers to the State Entomologist as follows : 

 (See Public Acts, 1903, page 59, chapter 125.) 

 As per vote of the Society your Committee drew up a bill 

 increasing the appropriation for the Pomological Society to 



