ADDRESSES 275 



Following the adoption of this resolution, the Board 

 chose by ballot Messrs. Simon Brown, Richard S. Fay and 

 Marshall P. Wilder a committee to prepare a plan for 

 carrying it into effect, and to report the same to the Board 

 for further action. 



At a later meeting, held February 2, 1860, Dr. George 

 B. Loring offered the following resolutions, which were 

 adopted : — 



Resolved, That the committee on agricultural education 

 be and hereby are authorized to prepare an elementary 

 manual of agriculture for the use of our common schools, 

 to be submitted to this Board for approval. 



Resolved, That the said committee be requested to cause 

 to be introduced the aforesaid manual, when approved by 

 this Board, into the common schools of Massachusetts, in 

 the manner provided for the introduction of school books 

 by the laws of the Commonwealth; and that said committee 

 be authorized to apply to the Legislature for the passage 

 of an act for the accomplishment of this object. 



At a meeting held January 10, 1861, on motion of Mr. 

 Fay, it was 



Voted, That the committee on the manual be authorized 

 to accept a proposition from Mr. Emerson and Mr. Flint, 

 securing to them the copyright of the manual as a compen- 

 sation for their services in preparing the book, upon such 

 terms as to price of the work to be furnished to public 

 schools, farmers' clubs and agricultural associations in 

 Massachusetts as may be agreed upon by said committee. 



