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ber of orders so drawn, the amount and to whom issued. The 
chair appointed Messrs. Edgerton, Lapham, and Pinckney, said 
committee. 
The further consideration of the Premium List was then re¬ 
sumed, and continued until 12J P. M., when the preparation 
thereof haying been completed, on motion, the Committee ad¬ 
journed until 2 P. M. 
Friday Afternoon , 2 F. 31. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. Present, Messrs. 
Hinkley, Ferguson, Pinckney, Edgerton, Atwood, Billings, 
Robbins, Lapham and Hoyt. President in the chair. 
Mr. Iloyt again urged the propriety and importance of 
appropriating $500,00 of the annual appropriation of $3,000 
to the making of either a botanical or entomological survey of 
the State, and of continuing the same until such survey shall 
have been thoroughly completed; and in conclusion, offered a 
resolution to that effect, which, after some discussion, in which 
Messrs. Lapham, Billings, D. Williams, Edgerton and Hinkley 
took part, was lost. 
Mr. Hoyt also revived the question of publishing at* the 
earliest possible day, the Fifth vol. of Transactions—whereupon 
Mr. Lapham offered the following resolution : 
Resolved , That the President and Secretary be authorized 
to procure the publication of three thousand copies of Trans¬ 
actions of the State Agricultural Society for the years 1858 
and '59, with such engravings and other illustrations as may be 
necessary; Provided , That their publication cannot be other¬ 
wise secured, and that the cost of publication shall not exceed 
the sum of about two thousand dollars. After considerable 
discussion the resolution was adopted. 
Mr. Hoyt offered the following : 
Resolved, That the’ sum of one hundred dollars be and the 
same is hereby appropriated to the purchase of needed stand¬ 
ard authorities for the Library of the Society. Which was 
unanimously adopted. 
