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to find the balance against the Society so small. These grounds the 

 Society can possess for a term of years, and hence the annual expense 

 of maintaining them will be trifling, so that hereafter the bright pros- 

 pects that are opening on the Society, will certainly insure them such an 

 amount of funds as will leave them unembarrassed, and give them 

 room to much enlarge the premium list, and in the meantime, give the 

 Society means to go forward with improvements on their own grounds. 



The executive board would also take this opportunity to most heartily 

 thank the public for the substantial and generous response they have 

 awarded to the efforts of the board, and they assure the public that 

 they feel their zeal renewed, to go forward and do all in their power to 

 advance the true interests which the Society cherishes for the promotion 

 of their objects, and they feel assured that the Kent County Agricultural 

 Society is to take rank as second to none in the State, if not in the 

 Union. 



The board regret that a larger number of the Vice Presidents could 

 not have been in attendance at the re -organization of the Society, The 

 board desire that the oflicers under the new order shall be the same as 

 heretofore, hence the board have not filled the oflice of Counselloi's, 

 (Vice Presidents.) 



An attendance from the several towns is earnestly invited at the next 

 meeting, so that these offices may be filled. 



T. E. WETMORE, 

 Secretary Kent Co. Agl Society. 



Grand Rapids, Dec. 28th, 1855. 



ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of the Kent County Agri- 

 cultural Society, adopted Dec. 27, 1855. 



Art. 1. W. S. H. Welton, J. W. B. Smith, T. E. Wetmore, J. F. 

 Chubb, G. M. Barker, Andrew Loomis, S. S. Bailey, G. C. Fitch, L. 

 K. Jenne, B. B. Church, J. C. Rogers, together v?ith such others as 

 may hereafter associate with them, and their successors, are hereby 

 organized under Act 80 of Session Laws of 1855, into a Society for 

 the advancement of Agriculture and Horticulture, Manufactures, Me- 

 chanic and Domestic Arts. 



