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intended that each County Society fhall always defray Its own 

 expences." 



" 3. In order to encourage the eftabHfhment of County 

 Societies, the Committee are of opinion, that this Society 

 ihould unanimoufly agree, that all the members of the feveral 

 County Societies, hereafter to be chofen, fhould always be 

 confidered as members of the State Society, under the fame 

 reflriftions as are propofed in the acl of incorporation, for 

 the members of the Legiilature when they attend the meetings 

 of this Society." 



The Prefident communicated to the Society his correfpondence 

 with John Broome, Prefident of the Chamber of Commerce 

 in the City of New- York, refpe£ting the introduftion of plants 

 and animals from foreign places, which is as follows : 



SIR, NeW'Yorkj ^th Dec. 1793. 



THE Legiflature having, with a view to commercial and 

 agricultural interefts, beenpleafed to incorporate your Chamber, 

 and the Society for the promotion of Agriculture and Ufeful 

 Arts, over the latter of which I have the honour to prefide, 

 "it becomes our duty mutually to forward their views in the 

 formation of thefe corporations. There can be little doubt 

 that the profitable commerce of this country muft be founded 

 upon its agriculture, and that its agriculHire derives new 



