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a machinery room; had it been double its present size the 

 machines on exhibition could have been displayed to better 

 advantage. Connected with this department an extraordinary 

 but absolutely necessary expens 3 has been incurred of new boilers, 

 the disbursements for which will be found in the usual state- 

 ments of the receipts and expenditures from the Finance Commit- 

 tee, of which Mr. William Ebbitt was the zealous and acceptable 

 chairman. 



The Annual Cattle Show was held at Madison Cottage, and the 

 attendance of graziers, and those interested in the improvement 

 of live stock, was quite gratifying. The details of this part of 

 the exhibition will be found in the report of that committee. 



The Committee on Premiums had as usual a most arduous and 

 embarrassing duty, which, however, was performed to the general 

 satisfaction of exhibitors, a copy of which will be found annexed. 

 The Managers cannot in justice fail to pay a grateful duty to the 

 ability and careful industry of its chairman, Mr. Joseph Torrey, 

 who discharged his office "with undoubted satisfaction. 



The Anniversary Address was delivered by Samuel Greene 

 Arnold, Esq., of Rhode Island, and was an able and eloquent 

 effort. Mr. Arnold has shown himself as acute in observation 

 (improved in result by foreign travel,) as forcible in illustration. 

 Other addresses were given at Castle Garden during the three 

 weeks of the exliibition to the interest and edification of the 

 various spectators. 



The Managers felicitate theii; fellow members of the Institute 

 upon the increasing activity in gratifying results to the cause of 

 American industry over the country. Its motto is ever excelsior, 

 and the olden saying — " There is no new thing under the sun," 

 can never be established in this land of unintermitting progress. 

 Let us, however, not stay our exertions ; there can be no excel- 

 lence without hopeful and steady labor. It will be reward 

 enough for us to know that, in many after years, posterity will 

 find no mention of the dead more honorable than to say, "he was 

 a jnember of the American Institute which gave giant pushes to 

 American industry in its childhood." 



