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N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



BUSINESS SESSION. 



President Engle: The first thing on the program of the busi- 

 ness meeting is the report of the President. Since that was put 

 on the program he has been trying to think of some report to make, 

 but scarcely knows what to say. 



I know that there was an Executive Committee, there was a 

 Pubhcity Committee appointed, and various other committees. Your 

 President has met with those committees, I guess, every time they 

 have met, and we have tried to do considerable work in those meet- 

 ings. The is:;sult of those meetings will appear in the different 

 reports of the committees. It is not necessary for me to go into 

 therm. 



We struggled with the legislature last winter, with the result 

 of getting $5,000 less than we struggled for, to say nothing of 

 some more. And we have been active already this year before 

 the Budget Commission and in other ways to see if we cannot get 

 the state to take hold of this proposition in a way that means busi- 

 ness. We seem to be about as far ahead as we were when we 

 commenced. The details of that you will hear later in these reports. 



One of the interesting reports at this time will be the report of the 

 Secretary-Treasurer as to the state of finances of the association. 



Secretary Headlee: The report of the Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, etc., are a sort of necessary evil to the conduct of our business. 



Report of the Secretary 



During the past year the Secretary has conducted a large volume 

 of correspondence with the membership of the association, in- 

 terested citizens of New Jersey, and various persons in other parts 

 of the country and other parts of the world, who were interested in 

 the work New Jersey is doing for the suppression of mosquitoes. 

 The Secretary has acted as secretary of the various committees, 

 prepared the minutes and sent fhem out. He has edited, with a 

 certain amount of aid, the proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meet- 

 ing, has taken it through the press and distributed it ajnong the 

 county mosquito extermination commissions. 



Fifteen hundred copies of last years' proceedings were printed 

 and the following distribution among the mosquito commissions 

 made: ! 



