SYJS'OPSIS OF FINAXCIAL EEPOETS FOE 1864. 



Amount of cash received from all sources (no appro- 

 priation from the State) $13,053 00 



Current expenses §10,591 03 



Paid for warrants on General Fund 2,461 97 



813,053 00 



§13,053 00 



INDEBTEDNESS OP SOCIETY. 



Amount of -warrants outstanding against the General Fund, Janu- 

 ary 13, 1864 $18,526 55 



Interest on the same from date of registry to January 13, 1865 1,220 82 



Indebtedness at last date $19, 747 37 



Warrants redeemed in 1864 8,412 72 



Present indebtedness $11,334 65 



The Financial Eeport having been referred to a committee, was found cor- 

 rect, and adopted by the Society. 



ELECTION. 



The terms of office of the President, C. F. Reed, and of Directors Richardson, 



Beck and Walsh having expired, by limitation of law. the same parties were 

 re-elected — the President for one year, and the Directors for three. 



At a meeting of the Board, held immediately after the adjournment of the 

 annual meeting, I. N. Hoag was unanimously re-elected Secretary of the 

 Board, and R. T. Brown was elected Treasurer, Vice Coleman, resigned. 



CONSTITUTION. 



The Constitution of the Society was materially amended at the annua] 

 meeting. The more important changes will be found in the following extracts. 



ARTICLE III.— Member ships. 



Section 1. Any person who has during the year 1865, or who shall here- 

 after pay to the Funds of this Society, the sum of Five Dollars, may become a 

 member of the same; such membership to expire on the 31st day of the 

 following December. 



ARTICLE lY.— Officers. 



Section 1. The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President and 

 nine Directors, who shall constiute a State Board of Agriculture — five of 

 whom shall constitute a quorum. They shall elect a Treasurer and Secreta- 

 ry, not members of the Board. They may also appoint annually as Officers of 

 the Board, a Chemist, a Botanist, a Geologist, a Metallurgist, a Meteorologist, 

 a Zoologist and an Entomologist, and define the duties of each. They 

 may appoint such Committees on the various departments of Agriculture, 

 Mining and Manufactures, either generally, or for specific purposes, as they 

 may deem important for the best interests of the State, and require such 

 committees to report the result of their observations and investigations to the 

 Board, at such times as may be named by them. 



