ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 1860 . 
Pursuant to a notice published by authority of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee, the Life Members of the Society met in the 
State Agricultural Rooms, at 8 o’clock on the evening of 
Thursday, September 27th, for the election of officers for the 
ensuing year. 
Meeting called to order by B. R. Hinkley, President. 
D. R. Coit offered the following resolution; 
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Resolved , That in order to secure a fair expression of the 
will and preference of the Life Members of the Society who 
are really entitled to exercise the right of suffrage therein, 
each member who may vote, be required, at the time of depos¬ 
iting his ballot, to give his name to the Secretary, and that 
none but bona fide Life Members, who have paid for their 
membership, be allowed to vote at this election. 
Which was adopted. 
At this stage of the proceedings, the Rooms of the Society 
being too crowded for the comfort of those present, the meet¬ 
ing adjourned to the office of the Secretary of State, where the 
election was duly held, with the following results: 
President —B.'R. HINKLEY, of Summit. 
Vice President —ls£ District , E. B. Wolcott, Milwaukee. 
“ 2 nd “ Nelson Dewey, Lancaster. 
“ 2>d “ Bertine Pinckney, Rosendale. 
Secretary — J. W. Hoyt, of Madison. 
Treasurer — David Atwood, of Madison. 
Additional Members of Executive Committee —IL. M. Billings, 
