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who may be present, in the Hall, in the event the Chairman is 

 absent, and provided the consent of such other members, as may 

 be in attendance, is given. 



3. No Report, awarding premiums, to be made on objects offer- 

 ed therefor, until after the season of the maturity of each kind of 

 fruit, flower, and vegetable, for which premiums have been offered, 

 has passed. 



4. No premium to be awarded, but by the consent and approba- 

 tion of a majority of each committee. 



5. All reports awarding premiums, to be signed by the Chair- 

 man, and transmitted to the Library Commitee for publication. 



The foregoing Rules were read and adopted, at a meeting of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on the 2d of October, 1830. 

 H. A. S. DEARBORN, Pres. Mass. Hort. Soc. 

 E. L. EMMONS, Recording Sec. 



