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STATE AGEICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
State Agricultural Rooms, July 3, 1863. 
After an absence of nearly two months, the greater part of which has been 
spent in daily visits to the Treasury and War Departments, I have, at length, 
been enabled to return and place in the treasury of the Society the sum of 
$4,966 22—amount claimed for property sold to the Government in the 
spring of 1862. 
The account had long been in the hands of the Third Auditor, but owing 
to some “informalities in the application,” to successive changes in the 
oflGice of Second Comptroller, and, I may add, most remarkable dullness 
on the part of some officials and stubbornness on the part of others, had not 
received the proper sanction requisite to its allowance and payment by the 
Treasurer. 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
State Agricultural Rooms, Dec. 8th, 1863. 
Executive Committee met to-day, in conformity with the By-Laws, to re¬ 
ceive the Report of the Treasurer and settle up all accounts for the fiscal 
year ending December 9th, 1863. 
Present—Messrs Hinkley, Hall, David Williams, Atwood and Hoyt. 
President Hinkley in the chair. 
At the request of the President, the Secretary gave a detailed account of 
his visit to Washington, on the business with which he had been charged, 
and of the difficulties encountered in securing allowance and payment of the 
Society’s claim. 
The Treasurer presented his Report, [see page 99], which after due exam¬ 
ination by the Committee, was approved. 
Moved, by the Secretary, that the Society take immediate steps to 
provide for resuming the work of holding Annual Exhibitions, as formerly’ 
and that public notice be given of this intention and of the desire felt by 
the Committee for early applications from all such localities as may be de¬ 
sirous of furnishing the Society with the requisite facilities. 
Motion generally approved, but action thereon finally postponed to the 
next meeting of the Committee. 
Adjourned, to meet again on the afternoon of the 9th instant, subsequent 
to the adjournment of the Annual Meeting of the Society. 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
EDUCATIONAL TOUE. 
[During the summer of 1863, the undersigned made a visit to all the agri¬ 
cultural schools then in operation in the United States, or which were pre¬ 
paring to open, with the view of obtaining information to aid in the wise 
establishment of the proposed College of Agriculture and the Mechanics Arts 
in this State. The encouraging facts then existing were, soon after, pub¬ 
lished in the Wisconsin J^armer, and would be also published in this volume 
