Winter Meeting, January ITtli and IStli, 1893. 



By previous arrangemeut with Hon. B. Walker McKeeu, Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Agriculture, a programme for a union 

 meeting was prepared and agreed upon. 



Assembled in Meonian Hall, Tuesday, January, 17th. at 10 

 o'clock, A. M. The temperature of the hall was so low that no 

 meetings were held there during the session. The forenoou meet- 

 ing was adjourned to Hotel North, and the other meetings were 

 held in the hall of Highland Lodge, A. O. U. W. who kindly 

 tendered our Society the use of the same. At Hotel North Presi- 

 dent Pope called the meeting to order. 



In the absence of A. S. Ricker, treasurer for 1892, his report 

 was presented by Charles E. Wheeler, the treasurer-elect for the 

 year 1893. The report was accepted. 



Secretary Knowltou, in behalf of the committee "to consider the 

 advisability of petitioning the next [present] Legislature for an 

 increased appropriation for the society," reported that "in view of 

 the facts presented your committee are convinced that it is advis- 

 able at this time to ask the Legislature to increase the annual 

 appropriation for the society." 



The committee recommend that the Legislature be asked to 

 amend the act of incorporation by changing the words "five hun- 

 dred dollars" to "one thousand dollars," in Section 2 of said act of 

 incorporation, so that said section, when amended, shall read as 

 follows : 



Sec. 2. Said Society shall have all the rights, privileges, and 

 powers conferred by the laws of this State upon county and local 

 agricultural societies, and shall be subject to all liabilities imposed 

 by existing laws upon societies, so far as the same are applicable to 

 the objects of this Society ; but the bounty to be paid by the State to 

 said Society shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars in one 

 year. 



