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130 acres of cultivated land, the whole well watered, and 

 limestone quarries on it. In regard to the site in Centre 

 County, H. N. McAllister presented a paper in which he, 

 James Irvin and A. G. Curtin, pledged themselves in be- 

 half of Centre and Huntingdon Counties to donate the 

 sum of $10,000 for the purposes implied in the act of incor- 

 poration of the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, pro- 

 vided the said site be accepted. 



Mr. McFarlane and Elias Baker offered to donate 400 

 acres of land near Altoona, and to guaranty the sum of 

 $10,000 from the citizens of Blair County, provided this 

 site were accepted. 



An offer was also made by the trustees of the estate of 

 Mr. Moore in Union County to sell 265 acres of land for a 

 site. 



FINAL VOTE ON THE LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL. 



After due consideration of all these offers, the Hon. 

 Fred. Watts, of Cumberland, offered the following resolu- 

 tion : Resolved, that the adoption of the proposition of Qen. 

 James Irvin for the location of the Farmers High School of 

 Pennsylvania will best promote the interests of the institution, 

 and that the same is hereby adopted. 



The question being on the adoption, Mr. Jas. Gowen 

 moved to strike out the name of General Irvin and insert 

 that of Elias Baker; not agreed to. Dr. Elwyn moved to 

 strike out the name of General Irvin and insert that of H. 

 Easton not agreed to. Fred. Watts then moved that the 

 question be postponed, and that James Gowen, A. 0. 

 Hiester and John Strohm be appointed a committee of 

 three to examine the propositions and determine which 

 should be accepted not agreed to. Kobt. C. Walker then 

 moved to strike from the resolution the name of General 

 James Irvin and insert that of Geo. A. Bayard ; not agreed, 

 to. The question then recurring upon the original resolu- 

 tion, was decided in the affirmative. 



The details of the selection of a site as just given are 

 made more full than would otherwise have been neces- 

 sary, in order to satisfy persons who may have an interest 

 in the subject, that the present site of the Agricultural Col- 



