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acquainted with their efforts, they did not then deem it 

 advisable to make a selection of any one of the sites offered. 



The committee was then continued, and directed to exa- 

 mine such other sites as might be offered, and to report at 

 the next meeting of the Board. In order that all friends 

 of agricultural education over the state might have an op- 

 portunity to offer inducements to locate the college where 

 they wished it, the proceedings of the meeting were ordered 

 to be published in all the prominent papers of the state. 



The Hon. Simon Cameron then stated that he thought 

 $10,000 could be raised in Dauphin County to purchase a 

 farm there for a site, and that to this end he would lead a 

 subscription with $1,000. Messrs. J. W. Patten and J. 

 Morrow, in behalf of the citizens of Blair county, offered 

 to purchase two hundred additional acres, adjoining the 

 two hundred offered by Colonel Baker, thus offering four 

 hundred acres, provided the school were located in Blair 

 county. 



The meeting of the executive committee of the State 

 Agricultural Society also convened at this time in Harris- 

 burgh. On motion of H. N. McAllister, at this meeting, it 

 was Resolved, That the sum of $10,000 be appropriated by 

 the State Agricultural Society to the Farmers' High School 

 of Pennsylvania. 



The third meeting of tlie Board of Trustees convened at 

 Harrisburg, September 12, 1855. 



The Committee appointed to view sites for the location 

 of the college, reported that, since the last meeting of the 

 board, they had viewed three farms, offered by Mr. Easton, 

 of Franklin County; two of them, of about 200 acres each, 

 were situated on the Pittsburg turnpike, near the town of 

 Loudon, both good limestone land in a high state of im- 

 provement, and on the one nearest the town a never-fail- 

 ing spring of water. A third farm, between Loudon and 

 Mercersburg, of 246 acres limestone land in a high state of 

 improvement, was also offered. 



The Committee also presented a letter just received from 

 David Blair, in which he offered to donate 200 acres, near 

 Shade Gap, on the road leading from Mount Union, on the 

 Pennsylvania Kailroad, to Chambersburg, containing about 



