Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-02
The committee appointed at the aunu-
al meeting to adjust the differences in re-.
ference to the stock certificates made the
following report, which was adopted


al meeting to adjust the differences in re.
ference to the stock certificates made the
following report, which was adopted
REPORT.
| 10 tie Board Of Managers of the RHtlond
County Agricultural Society,
GENTLEMEN,-By resolution adopted
at the annual meeting of said society held
on the 18th day of January, 1871, the
undersigned were created committee to
hear and determine matters of difference
relative to life membership in your 30
ciety, and were directed to report to your
board the result of their investigations.
Having considered the matters thus re-
fered your committe submit the following
as their report: ...-
Your committee having fixed upon
Friday, February 24th,at one o'clock pm.
at the Bardwell House, Rutland as the
time and place for said hearing, by letter
notified the President and Treasurer of
said Society, and also Linsey Round,
Esq, (who has acted as principal agent of
said Society in negotiating the sale of life
Memberships of the same, and also caused
notice of the same to be published in the
Rutland Daily HERALD for the inform
alton of all concerned.
Agreeably to said notice your commit
tee met the Treasurer, Mr.. Round, and
many other members of said Society, and
after full and patient hearing of the
matter, find the following:
From the frat book OF blank certificates
used by the Treasurer, gand from which
he delivered to the agent or agents,
blanks signed by himself and numbered
from No. to No. 487 inclusive,as appears
from the corresponding stubs still remain
ing in said book, it appears that the treas
urer has issued 4S7 certificates. These
| certificates were it seems, intended to be
used iu the light of receipts, to be given
to subscribers on payment, the ag"nt sell
ling them to insert the name of the per-
son to whom sold, and were convertible
into life membership certificates on pre-
sentation to the Treasurer. Many Of these
certificates or receipts have been convert
ed, but majority of them have not yet
been presented for that purpose. It also
appears that the agents in making re-
turns to the Treasurer for certificates sold
did not make full return of the names
Df tho 70 Tr tpy,n oolI 9hot &c
Treasurer omitted to make full record
of such names, and although the agent
Mr.. Round, has paid over to the Treasu-
rer-blank certificates not sold-oash
vouchers, etc, the full amount for all
blanks received by him, as Acknowledged
by the Treasurer and expressed in full
| receipt in the hands of Mr.. Rounds, yet
the Treasurer has declined to convert
some ten certificates, for the reason that
he did not find corresponding names on
the lists returned to him by the agents.
This informality in making returns or
In recording the same has, in the iudg-
ment of your committee, been the cause,
to considerable extent, of the misunder-
standing and difficulty between the Off
GERS and members of the society. If the
name of every person to whom certificates
were issued or sold had been returned to
the Treasurer, and had he made a correct
record of the same, there could not have
been the discrepancy which at first ap-
peared.
Since closing the book from which these
4S7 certificates or receipts were taken,
there has been eight new life memberships
sold, for which certificates of that class
have been issued by the Treasurer and en-
tered in his books.
Your committee therefore directed their
efforts to tracing out and accounting for
the certificates from l to 457, in doing
which we, for our own convenience and
more easily to state the matter, charge
stock account with 487 certificates. We
then credit that account as follows: