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 HISTORY OF STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 339 tent in order to make it more workable, the yearly dues and admission fee were reduced from $5.00 to $1.00, and the life membership from $25.00 to $20.00 ; and if already an annual member, to $15.00. The annual due was made $1.00 instead of $2.50. The time of holding the annual meeting was changed from the second Monday in September of each year to the third Wednesday in September, biennially, and regularly every two years thereafter, the officers so elected to begin their term of service on the first Monday in January fol- lowing their election. At this meeting, Mr. George Collier Bobbins, a prominent business man of Portland at that time, was elected president. The vice-presidents chosen were as follows, representing each county in the State : Benton, J. Quinn Thornton ; Clackamas, J. S. Kinearson ; Clatsop, John Hobson ; Columbia, Enoch W. Conyers; Coos, T. D. Winchester; Curry, Peter Ruffner; Douglas, R. M. Hutchinson; Jackson, John E. Ross; Jose- phine, George E. Briggs; Lane, Avery A. Smith; Linn, Wil- liam Mcllree ; Marion, Thomas T. Eyre ; Multnomah, Thomas Frazar; Polk, J. D. Walling; Tillamook, Edrick Thomas; Umpqua, Dr. Langley Hall; Wasco, Orlando Humason (father of Mrs. John B. Waldo of the present day) ; Wash- ington, Thomas R. Cornelius; Yamhill, William Dawson. The corresponding secretary, recording secretary and treas- urer of the previous year were elected. The committees were as follows : Managers E. M. Barnum, Marion; Ashby Pearce, Linn; Benjamin Stewart, Yamhill. Finance Committee George Collier Robbins, Multnomah; Chester N. Terry and Samuel E. May, Marion. Library Committee Samuel E. May and Thomas T. Eyre, Marion; A. G. Walling, Multnomah. Visiting Committee Henry W. Eddy, Clackamas; Ralph C. Geer and Thomas T. Eyre, Marion. Publishing Committee George Collier Robbins, Multno- mah; Samuel E. May and Lucien Heath, Marion.