Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-18
Changes in the City Hall.

The Historical Society Removal The
 Road Departments Change of Base.
 The New Haven Colony Historical Society will get into it's new quarters in the old State
 House sometime next month. Some of the choice individual collections have already
 been transferred by the curator, MT. Lefing- well. The rooms of the Historical Society in
 the City Hall, third floor, willsbe occupied by the Road Commissioners and Surveyors de-
 pertinent. This department will then have
 three rooms all on the third floor, the work
 room of the surveyors being already on that
 floor, and all the three rooms are contiguous,
 on the same side of the hall. The front room
 will be occupied by City Surveyor Fowler, Clerk Waldron, Street Inspector Doyle, eide- walk Inspector Mattoon and Park Superin- ! tendent Andruss, and the Road Commission CTS will use it for their regular meetings The department by this removal will gain the ad vantage of the occupation of a vault for the
 storage of documents, maps, etc., privilege 1 which they were busted of on the floor below, ] the vault which they occupied jointly with 1 the assessors having been given solely to the ! assessors. Since that time they had no place of their own to keep their records, but have had privileges in the vault connected with the Chief Engineers ofice which, being on an- other floor, was inconyenient, involving much running up and down stairs. It is under stood that the present room of the Road Commissioners will become the office of the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths. While the change will be much more conven- tent for the road department, bringing their business all on one floor with vault accommo- dations connected herewith, it will not be quite as handy for the public, who will have to mount two pair of stairs, there being no such useful concern as an elevator connected with this public building.
 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural so- c1ety.
 The annual meeting of the Milford and Orange Agricultural society was held in the court room, Milford, recently. The treasurer's report showed balance of $121.15 in the treasury for the receipts of the sea- son, and the debt of the society has been reduced to $250. The following named persons were elected to serve for the ensuing year: President Albertus N. Clark vice presidents Joseph W. Nettleton, David PIatt and Dennis Tenn; secretary, Edward Miles; directors, from Milford David Miles, c. w. Beardsley. I. c. Smith, Marcus Merwin, I. 4. Merwin, D. B. Platt, H. N. Platt, A. c. Platt, D. l.. Clarke, G. F. PIatt, H. S. Ford, c. w. Oviatt from Or ange-Elbe J. Treat, Geo. Hine, Frank Woodruff, Zadock R. Morse and F. B. Per- kins; from West Haven-E- E. Benham, F. w. Bishop, Edward Pritchard, w. W. Nor throp, $. l.. Lincoln and G. R. P. Atwell chief marshal, David Platt.
 It was voted to offer premiums of eight and five dollars for herds of ten cattle each, open to parties from adjoining towns. It was voted to hold fair the second week in September, 1881, and to offer premiums amounting to $75O for trotting horses the same as this year. The premiums offered by this society no lower than other fairs of fer for the same articles, and the reason that they were lowered last fall was because they were too high, sometimes exceeding twice the value of the article exhibited for Q premium. A good deal of interest and good feeling were manifested in this meeting, all the off cers being unanimously elected.