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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Fair shall be formally opened with an address by the 
President, at 10 A. M. of Wednesday. 
Committees of Judges must complete their awards and make 
their returns to the Society as early as 12 M. of Thursday. 
Trials of Speed shall commence at 1 o’clock P. M., Friday. 
The Ladies’ Equestrian Display, after considerable discus¬ 
sion, was voted a part of the exercises of the occasion, as 
heretofore; and J. F. Willard was appointed Superintendent of 
the same. 
Voted, that the payment of one dollar to the Treasurer of 
the Society, shall entitle the person so paying it, to Annual 
Membership, and to six admission tickets, if an exhibitor, and 
to four tickets if simply a member; and that six tickets be 
issued to no one after the office of entry shall have been closed. 
After several other less important changes in the Rules and 
Regulations of the Society for the holding of its Annual Fair, 
the Committee adjourned until 8 o’clock Thursday morning. 
Thursday , February 9, 8 A. M. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. Present, same 
members as before, except J. I. Case. President Hinklev in 
the chair. 
Voted to receive any communications that the Secretary may 
have to make. 
The Secretary addressed the Committee on the subject of 
the removal of the office of the Society; on the importance of 
publishing at once another volume of Transactions; on the 
propriety of memorializing the Legislature for the passage of 
laws for the protection of sheep, and the better collection of 
Agricultural statistics; on a proposed plan for securing valua¬ 
ble periodical exchanges, and for increasing the library of the 
Society; on the future policy of the Society touching the dis¬ 
tribution of seeds, the making of scientific investigations, and 
securing the delivery of lectures on Agriculture throughout 
the State; and on certain modifications in the Premium List of 
the Society. He also read extracts from a large number of 
