252 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



The committee was constituted by the appointment of Messrs. 

 Bull. Loring and Saltonstall. 



This committee subsequenty presented the following 



report: 



The Committee to which was referred the application of the 

 Blandford Society for representation on this Board, under the 

 the Act of 1866, report that the society have not complied with 

 the terms of the Act by publishing their Transactions, and are 

 not entitled to a delegate. 



(Signed,) For the Committee, 



E. W. Bull, Chairman. 



Attention was also called by the Secretary to the mode of 

 making returns on the part of some of the societies, when a 

 motion was made that the Secretary be directed to notify all the 

 societies that their returns will hereafter be required to be 

 printed in pamphlet form, and to be filed with the Secretary on 

 or before January 15th of each year. The subject, after some 

 discussion, was referred to a committee of three, consisting of 

 Messrs. Moore, Hubbard and Ward. 



This committee, after full consideration, subsequently sub- 

 mitted the following vote, which was unanimously adopted : — 



Voted, That the Secretary of this Board be requested to 

 notify all the societies receiving the bounty of the State, that 

 hereafter, in addition to the financial returns now required by 

 law to be made on or before the tenth day of December of each 

 year, they will be required to return a full and complete report 

 of their doings, printed in pamphlet form, on or before the 

 fifteenth day of January following. 



And that the Secretary will not be authorized to certify to the 

 Legislature, or to the State auditor, that a society has complied 

 with the law, and is entitled to its bounty, unless it has 

 conformed to this requirement. , 



Delegates appointed to visit the various exhibitions submitted 

 reports as follows : — Mr. Clement on the Middlesex South ; Mr. 

 Thompson on the Worcester ; Mr. Billings on the Worcester 

 West; Mr. Sladc on the Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin ; 

 Mr. Ward on the Hampshire ; Mr. Sanderson on the Hampden 

 East ; Mr. Homer on the Plymouth ; Mr. Smith on the Iloosac 



