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ety, all interest that he has, or at any time may have had, in all 
of those products collected in America, also to all those agricultu-. 
ral 'products collected abroad. Your committee recommend the 
acceptance of the above proposition. 
Eli Stilson, 
W. W. Field, 
W. R Taylor. 
The report was unanimously adopted. 
Secretary Hoyt urged the propriety of the annual assignment 
of important subjects to the several members of the board for in¬ 
vestigation, and that they report at the next subsequent winter 
meeting, and concluded by moving the appointment of a com¬ 
mittee of three to prepare a list of topics to be considered at the 
meeting of 1873, and to nominate members for assignment to the 
duty of reporting thereon. Which motion was carried. 
The President appointed Messrs. Mitchell, Field and Taylor, to 
act as such committee. 
At this stage of the proceedings, the President called the atten¬ 
tion of the board to the fact that he had received, and would now 
lay before them, a formal communication from Dr. Hoyt, again 
tendering his resignation of the office of Secretary, and of which 
the following is a copy : 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, January, 1872. 
To the President and Executive Board of the Wisconsin State Agricul¬ 
tural Society: 
Gentlemen : After more than twelve years of uninterrupted 
service as Secretary of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 
during which period, I have formed an enduring friendship for my 
several associates in the work of promoting the industrial inter¬ 
ests of this state, it is not without regret that I am constrained 
again to tender my resignation of that office, with the request that 
the same shall be considered final, and take effect April first of 
the present year. 
That I have so long remained with you, in disregard of mani¬ 
fest interest, leaving now in the height of its prosperity, the insti¬ 
tution for which we have mutually labored and sacrificed, will be 
