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STATE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY 
EXECUTIYE * MEETING-. 
State Agricultural Rooms, Dec. 11, ISC'?. 
Executive Committee met pursuant to requirement of By-Laws, on this 
day at 7^ o’clock, P. M., President Darling in the chair and adjourned to 9 
o’clock A. M., of Wednesday the 11th inst. 
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1867. 
9 o’clock, A. M. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. 
Present—Messrs. Darling, Hinkley, Eaton, Taylor, Atwood and Hoyt. 
President Darling in the chair. 
Pursuant to requirement of By-Laws, the Committee entered upon an exam¬ 
ination of the books, papers and vouchers of the Secretary and Treasurer, 
and continued therein until 1 o’clock P. M. 
Adjourned to 2 o’clock P, M. 
2 o’clock P. M. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. 
Present—same members as before. 
After a careful examination and comparison of the Treasurer’s statement 
with the records and papers in the Secretary’s office, said statement was ap¬ 
proved and orders No. 1 to 600, both inclusive, were cancelled and filed away. 
The following is the Treasurers’ Report: [See page 301.] 
On motion, it was 
Resolved^ That the Secretary is hereby authorized to draw an order in fa¬ 
vor of the Treasurer to the amount of $44.60 to re-imburse him for the 
amount of counterfeit money received by him, as controller of the ticket 
office, during the past ten years, to Dec. 11, 1867, and this day returned and 
placed in the office of the Society. 
Secretary presented a communication from P. B. Parsons, enclosing an ap¬ 
plication from representatives of the Congregational Society of Madison, 
asking re-imbursement, to the amount of $13.60, amount paid by said Socie¬ 
ty for water used during the late State Fair; which application, after some 
discussion, was unanimously rejected. 
The Secretary reported, that having become satisfied by the affidavits of par¬ 
ties exhibiting the Lamb Knitting Machine, that the award to the Bridgeport 
Knitting Machine Co. of a Diploma on machines exhibited by their agent at 
the late Fair was so awarded by the Judges without having made a proper 
examination of the Lamb machine and others on exhibition, he (the Secre¬ 
tary) had assumed the responsibili:jy, in behalf of the Executive Committee, 
of annulling the said award to the Bridgeport Co. He had brought the sub¬ 
ject before this meeting, that the Committee might have the opportunity of 
sanctioning or disapproving his action. 
On motion of Col. Hinkley, the action of the Secretary was unanimously 
approved. 
The Committee then adjourned sine die. 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
