INTRODUCTION. Vii 



Mr. Chancellor Livingfton, the Prefident, prefented a letter 

 from a Society of Gentlemen in Albany, affociated for the 

 purpofe of promoting the manufacture of fugar from the maple- 

 tree, foliciting their friendly aid in procuring legiflative coun- 

 tenance and afliflance, in encouraging the manufadure of that 

 article of domeftic produce bypremiums or bounties. This letter 

 Was accompanied by various famples of the fugar of different 

 qualities prelenred by ihc manufa£lurers to the Albany- Aflbcia- 

 tion, for which, already, premiums had been given ; and by 

 the hiftory of that affociation, &c. After this letter and the 

 accompanying papers had been read, and the famples of fugar 

 infpeded, it was ordered that the Prefident fliould draft and 

 forward to the legillature a memorial on the fubjecl, to concur 

 with the memorial on the fame fubjed from the gentlemen of 

 Albany. 



Mr. Simeon De Witt was appointed to colled meteorological 

 obfervations and regifters, from whatever fources he may be 

 able, throughout the Hate. 



The Prefident communicated a French memoir from 

 Mr. Chanlat, refpecting the improvement of hufbandry and 

 farming in the neighbourhood of New-York, and reciting fome 

 experiments of his own for the promotion of agriculture in 

 France. 



