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Then follows a clause covering a guaranty on the 

 part of the trustees that the caterer shall be paid at 

 least a certain sum, to secure him against loss in the 

 event of a stormy day and thin attendance. 



Some hint has been given of the distinction of these 

 occasions in the mention of names of eminent men. In 

 this classification belong some of the members of the 

 board of trustees; and all were men of note. Mr. 

 Webster, after he became a trustee, was probably 

 regularly present at the festival, though not always 

 mentioned in the curt news reports of that period, 

 which, in some years fail to give any names of guests. 

 Col. Pickering and Judge Story were frequent attend- 

 ants. Edward Everett, then known as Professor 

 Everett, appears to have been regarded as indispens- 

 able, in the after dinner proceedings, after his first 

 appearance in 1822, though he did not become a mem- 

 ber of the society till 1850. The Governor usually 

 represented the State, and, in his absence, the lieu- 

 tenant governor, and sometimes both were present. 

 The judges of the highest State court were among 

 those regularly invited. In 1818 John Adams, ex- 

 president of the United States and also of the society, 

 was a guest. As coming from distant places are men- 

 tioned from time to time Judge Buel of Albany, Judge 

 Smith and Hon. Francis Granger of New York, Hon. 

 Matthew Carey of Philadelphia, Hon. Mr. Calvert of 

 Maryland, J. S. Skinner of Baltimore, William Crafts 

 of South Carolina, Mr. Lee of Virginia, and others as 

 delegates from agricultural societies in New Hamp- 

 shire, Connecticut, Maine, Pennsylvania and Canada. 

 In 1816 Commodore William Bainbridge was a guest, 

 his laurels still fresh that he had won upon the deck of 

 the frigate Constitution, and in 1820 Commodore 

 Isaac Hull, with like laurels, won upon the same vessel, 



