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The annual report of the treasurer [for a full account see 
minutes of annual meeting of the society] showed the amount 
of receipts during the year to have been $27,747.48; the 
amount of expenditures ( ncluding payment of indebtedness 
to J. W. Hoyt for money loaned by him to the society and 
advanced on the Bruen property,) $21,793.48; and the balance 
on hand to be $5,954.00. 
All of which accounts of the secretary and treasurer were 
found correct and approved by a unanimous vote of the board. 
Mention was made by the president and other members of 
the board of the valuable assistance received fr..m Mr. Beck, 
chief of police of Milwaukee, at the late fair; and a motion 
was made, seconded and unanimously carried, tendering to 
him the thanks of the board, together with the grand silver 
medal of the society, and fifty dollars, as an expression of their 
appreciation of the valuable and efficient services rendered the 
society by him on that occasion. 
On motion, the board then adjourned sine die. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MEETING for the election of officers. 
City Hall, Milwaukee, September 28,1871. 
Pursuant to requirement of the constitution, and to notice 
published in accordance therewith, a large number of the life 
members of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society con¬ 
vened at the city hall in Milwaukee for the purpose of electing 
officers of the society for the year 1872, 
President B. R Hinkley in the chair. 
President called the meeting to order, and stating that the 
object of the meeting was to elect officers for the ensuing year^ 
asked what was the pleasure of the society. 
Mr. T. C. Dousman, of Waukesha, moved that a committee 
of seven—one from each congressional district and one from 
