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at no time an absent dollar. So far have these Fairs augmented our 

 funds for the good of the Farmer, that, I candidly say to you, the 

 Institute has now at interest about ^7000, every cent of which 

 awaits but the order of the Institute ; and this they are not at all 

 backward at giving, when any good is to be accomplished by it. 

 The object is to sustain with it the current and necessary expenses 

 of the Institution, and whenever the Wisdom of the State shall 

 come in aid, perhaps to establish an Agricultural School. It may- 

 be asked who, all this while, has been the superintending Agent ; 

 under whose auspices, aided by the Board of Managers, these finan] 

 cial wonders have been performed ; and to whose cautious foresight 

 so much is owing. 



It is Thaddeus B. Wakeman — who has extended his care over it 

 from the beginning till now. (Great applause.) 



As an example of the manner in which the "money" of the In- 

 stitute goes : you know the receipts of this day and evening are to 

 be set apart for the benefit and relief of the child injured by one of 

 the agricultural machines on the bridge, which, it is hoped and be- 

 lieved, will be about the sum of $1,000.* The accident was not 

 the fault of the Institute, but the indiscretion of the child and I 

 am directed distinctly to announce, that if parents will hereafter 

 send children here too small to take care of themselves, the officers 

 of the Institute will endeavor to guard them, but that competent 

 persons must be sent to take care of them, and that the Institute 

 cannot, hereafter, appropriate its funds for the relief of such cases. 



[The speaker then made a passing allusion to the Pyrotechnic 

 display of the evening, in competition for premiums, and particular- 

 ly noticed the Band from the frigate Macedonian — w^hich at intervals 

 during the past day or two, had discoursed most excellent music — 

 thanking them in handsome terms, in the name of the Institute, for 

 their polite endeavors to enliven still further the already cheerful and 

 pleasant exhibition. He then proceeded :] 



I W'ill not further detain you, hoping you can agreeably occupy 

 the remainder of the time in viewing the many elegant and useful 

 articles around, which time forbids me to remark upon. Greatly 

 obliged by your kind attention to these few and desultory remarks, 



* $1000 has been since settled on the child. 



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