Accounts; but the appropriation of Public Funds should be
made direct to the County Societies and subject only to the audit
of the Central Committee. These Reports will thus exhibit a general
statement of the sums expended and whether commensurate progress
has been made in the improvement of Agricultural implements,
machinery, modes of culture, augmentation of production, and breed
of Cattle, all of which should be under the influence of these
meetings.

With views such as these, so soon as I discovered, in studying your
affairs, the disabilities and difficulties which the Province might
have to contend with from deficiency in the supply of food, and
aware that it would require pecuniary means, on my part, to put
into activity the plans which I then formed, and now lay before
you, I submitted to His Majesty's Secretary of State the importance
of sanctioning a small grant from the funds at the disposal of the
Crown, to meet the liberality and public spirit with which I am
persuaded, elsewhere and every where, the great object now under
our consideration will be supported. I have great satisfaction in
showing how readily this has been dispensed: I will read the terms
of it, and hasten to say that the use I shall make of it, will be,
to place a sum, which I hope will be annual, at the disposal of
those County Societies that are or may be organized to meet the
views which I here lay before you.

In communicating this grant from His Majesty's Revenue to the
Agricultural Societies, it is however my duty to state, that the
continuation of this grant for future years, will depend upon the
report which I may have in my power to make of the advantages which
it may have produced; and these will mainly depend upon the
liberality and zeal with which this Provision is seconded in the
Country generally.

The Society having been formed and organized, the President communicated
to the Meeting that he had received a Message from His Excellency the
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, that it was his intention to attend the Meeting in
person, to communicate his sentiments on their proceedings, and his
acceptance of the office of Patron.

Whereupon His Excellency entered and having taken the Chair, addressed
the Society as follow:--

_Mr. President, Vice-Presidents, and Gentlemen
of the Agricultural and Emigrant Society,