In accordance with this request, His Excellency Governor Hartranft issued the following commission:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, April 24, 1878.
To George Blight, Esq., of the city of Philadelphia; Chalkley Harvey, Esq., of the county of Delaware, and Willis P. Hazard, Esq., of the county of Chester:
Gentlemen: I have the honor to inform you that you have been duly appointed a committee by the State Board of Agriculture to investigate and test “The Guenon Milk Escutcheon Theory,” and report the result thereof to the secretary of said Board.
Jno. F. Hartranft,
Governor and President of the Board.
November 1, 1878.
To the Honorable Jno. F. Hartranft, Governor and President of the Board of Agriculture:
Your Excellency: In compliance with the commission tendered us, we beg leave most respectfully to report that we have visited a number of herds and have examined two hundred cows, the result of which is herewith submitted.
Having performed to the best of our ability the duty assigned us, we beg leave to be discharged from further consideration of the question.
Respectfully yours,