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the amount received from Government being $4,500. It 

 would be impossible to extend the Museum from the 

 funds of the Society, and he agreed with the President 

 that, as it was really a public educational institution, the 

 Government might be asked for aid to that purpose. 



Mr. Tinne proposed and Mr. Jacob Conrad seconded, 

 that the Treasurer's Accounts and Report be adopted, 

 which was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Davis gave notice of the following motions : — 



1. — Premium of $100 to be given by the Society for the erection of 

 a kiln to dry Indian corn. 



2 —Si 00 to be put at the disposal of the Commercial Committee for 

 :>ho\v cases to exhibit commercial products of the colony. 



3. — Premium of Sioo to the first person who shall export 1,000 bun- 

 ches of bananas or 20,000 oranges, 



4.— ?300 to be voted to the Agricultural Committee to establish a 

 system of immigration from the Azores and Madeira. 



The Secretary reported that, at meetings of the respec- 

 tive Committees held on the previous Monday, the 

 following officers had been elected: — 



Agricultural Committee. — R. J. Kelly, Chairman ; 

 Hon. B. H. Jones, Vice-Chairman ; George Garnett, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Commercial Committee. — J. E. Tinne, Chairman ; A. 

 Weber, Vice-Chairman ; W. Cunningham, Hon. Secretary. 



Mr. Tinne stated, for the information of the meeting, 

 that the Commercial Committee had met that morning 

 when Mr. A. P. P. Mackey had been elected in the room 

 of Mr. Dare, who was leaving the colony. ' He would 

 like to know from the President whether the Society 

 would be likely to interfere with the Committee if it 

 should entrench on what might be considered, in a strict 

 sense, political matters? 



