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as the proprietors of such libraries ; and may hold real and 

 personal estate not exceeding ten thousand dollars." 



Associations were formed in some towns and villages, in 

 accordance with the provisions of this act, and many thousand 

 dollars have been added to the value of real estate, wherever 

 their eiforts have been judiciously directed. 



The sections of the forty-first chapter of the Revised Statutes, 

 referred to in the above act, read as follows, and indicate the 

 method of calling the first meeting and organizing. But little 

 formality is necessary, and enterprising individuals need not 

 delay from ignorance of the mode of proceeding. 



" Sect. 1. Any seven or more proprietors of a library may 

 form themselves into a corporation, under such corporate name 

 as they shall adopt, for the purpose of preserving, enlarging, 

 and using such library ; and for that purpose, any justice of 

 the peace may, on the application of five or more of such pro- 

 prietors, issue his warrant to one of them, directing him to call 

 a meeting of the proprietors, at the time and place and for the 

 purposes expressed in the warrant ; and said meeting shall be 

 called by posting up the suljstance of the warrant in some pub- 

 lic place, in the town where the said library is kept, seven days, 

 at least, before the time of meeting. 



"Sect. 2. Any seven or more of the proprietors of such 

 library, met in pursuance of such notice, may choose a presi- 

 dent, a clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of 

 his duty, a librarian, collector, treasurer, and such other offi- 

 cers as they may find necessary ; and they may also determine 

 upon the mode of calling future meetings." 



Would it not be well for the county agricultural societies to 

 encourage the formation of associations under the law of 1853, 

 and also to encourage individuals to set out and take care of 

 ornamental trees ? It would, at least, attract attention to the 

 importance of cultivating a taste for the beautiful, and would, 

 in a few years, make many a place attractive and agreeable, 

 which is now uninteresting, if not, indeed, positively forbid- 

 ding. He who plants and tends a tree, raises a monument 

 which may survive him a hundred years ; and the society which 

 encourages him in it, will at least perpetuate its influence by 

 the permanent improvement of land, thus adding greatly to 

 the aggregate wealth and prosperity of the State. — Ed. 



