236 BOAED OF AGRICULTUEE. 



to enable the Commissioners to meet anv necessity whicli may 

 arise. During the past year the Commissioners, in the dis- 

 charge of their duties, have expended fifty-nine dollars and 

 eighty-eight cents ($59.88). 



Leti Stockbeidge, 

 E. F. Thayer, 

 Commissioners on Coniagious Diseases among Cattle. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD. 



The Board met at the office of the Secretary in Boston on 

 Monday the 3d of February, 1873, at 12 o'clock, A. M., His 

 Excellency Governor 'Washbuex in the chair. 



Present. — Messrs. Agassiz, Allis, Baker, Brown, Clark, 

 Fearing, Hadwen, Hubbard, Hyde, Knowlton, Ladd, Loriug, 

 IVIiles, Moore, Root, Saltonstall, Slade, Stone, Stockbridge, 

 Sturtevant, TTashburn and ^Vilder. 



After the reading of the records a committee was appointed 

 on the order of business, consistinof of Messrs. Lorinsr, Fear- 

 iusr and Root. 



AVhile the committee were out, the Secretary read extracts 

 from the Annual Report. 



The committee on the order of business then submitted the 

 following 



REPORT: 



1. Reports of Delegates to the County Exhibitions. 



2. Reports of Committees on Subjects assigned for Essays. 



3. Report of the Committee on the Agricultural College. 

 -4. Miscellaneous Business. 



5. Appointment of Delegates, 



The sessions to begin at 10 o'clock, A. M., each day. The 

 committee also suoforest that the committees on the selection 

 of subjects for Essays and on the Annual Country Meeting be 

 appointed on TTednesday morning. 



(Signed) George B. Loeixg. 



Albert Feaeixg. 

 Tho^ias p. Root. 



The report was accepted, when Messrs. Slade, Moore and 

 Hubbard were appointed a committee to consider and report 

 upon the times of holding the exhibitions of the county so- 

 cieties. 



