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COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS. 



IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTYNINE. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THEfMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETV. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and 

 House of Representatives in General Court assem- 

 bled, and by the authority of the same, That Zebe- 

 DEE Cook, Jr., Robert L. Emmons, William Wor- 

 THiNGTON, B. V. French, John B. Russell, J. R. 

 Newell, CheeverNewhall, and Thomas G. Fes- 

 senden, their Associates and Successors, be and 

 they hereby are incorporated under the name and by 

 the description of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, for the purpose of encouraging and improv- 

 ing the science and practice of Horticulture, and 

 promoting the amelioration of the various species of 

 trees, fruits, plants, and vegetables, and the introduc- 

 tion of new species and varieties ; with power to 

 make by-laws not inconsistent with the Laws of the 

 Commonwealth, for the regulation of said Society, 

 and the management of the same and of its con- 

 cerns ; to receive donations, bequests and devises for 

 promoting the objects of said Society ; to lay and 



