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highly instructive Lectures delivered by those gentlemen on the 26th, 27th 
and 28th of September, respectively, and that copies of their several Addres¬ 
ses are requested for publication with the Proceedings of the Society. 
Which, on motion, were unanimously adopted. 
The hills of members of the Executive Committee, for ex¬ 
penses in attending the Fair having been audited and paid, 
the Committee adjourned sine die. 
J. W. Hoyt, Sec’y. 
State AGRicuLTimAL Rooms, 
Madison , Dec. 11,1860. 
As required by the By-Laws, the Executive Committee, on 
this, the day next preceding the Annual Meeting of the Soci¬ 
ety, met for an adjustment of the accounts of the Society, &c. 
Present, Messrs. Ilinkley, Ferguson, Hall, Atwood and 
Hoyt. 
President Hinkley in the chair. 
The Auditing Committee, (which by the By-Laws is the 
Executive Committee, and which is required “to annually ex¬ 
amine the books, papers and vouchers of the Treasurer and 
Secretary, and compare the same, and adjust the accounts 
between those officers and the Society, and to report thereon 
at the Annual meeting in December,”) made a full and careful 
investigation of the accounts, and found the same correct, as 
set forth in the Treasurer’s Annual Report. 
The reports of Field Crops by the Acre, were next taken up 
and carefully compared. The awards, made thereon were as 
follows : (These awards having been published in their proper 
place, on page 150 of this volume, are omitted here.) 
Committee then adjourned sine die. 
J. W. Hoyt, Secretary . 
