REPORT. 



In compliance with the act of the Legislature passed May 7th, 

 1844, the trustees submit the following statement of their transactions 

 with the annexed documents. 



The efforts of those who have had the agency in the operations of 

 the Institute the last year, have been marked with zeal, energy, and 

 perseverance, steadily directed to the duties enjoined in its charier, 

 viz : " Encouraging and promoting domestic industry in this tState 

 and the United Stales, in Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and 



the Arts." 



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Means for effecting these objecis similar in a great measure to those 

 named in the former report, have been pursued the last year. 



The dail}' meetings of a portion of the officers and active members 

 of the Institute have been regularly held, to whom have been submit- 

 ted for consideration important letters and communications, embracing 

 an extensive correspondence reaching to other Slates, and even to 

 distant foreign couniries. Experience has shown these meetings to 

 be eminently beneficial. The contents of these letters and communi- 

 cations are discussed and made subservient as far as jjracticable in 

 advancing the cause of industry and improvement. Suggestions of 

 wholesome measures for future meetings of the Institute are also de- 

 bated, and matured, instead of being presented in their crude stale. 



Means of improvement are thus promptly, by frequent meetings, 

 made available, which olliervvise might be overlooked, forgotten, and 

 neglected. By means of these- meetings, numbers become intimate- 

 ly acquainted with the affairs of the Institute now grown to be very 

 multifarious, embracing a vast variety of details ; and tiiev can from 

 lime to time before the meetings of the Institute, managers, commit- 

 tees, &c., give such explanations as conduce to uniformity of action, 

 and consistency in the general measures of its administration. 



