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the pages of this Report. To the ladies of Dedham, Dorchester, 

 Quincy, Medfield, and Needham, the Society are under especial 

 obligations for their perseverance in the collection of funds, for their 

 taste in the preparation, and for their energy in the superintendence 

 of the Ladies' Fair ; also to the citizens of Dedham for the erection 

 of an Observatory on the Agricultural Hall. These favors were 

 acknowledged by the following votes, passed by the Board of Trus- 

 tees, at their meeting held on the 17th day of November, 1853. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Ladies of Ded- 

 ham, Dorchester, Quincy, Medfield, and other towns in the County, whose 

 liberal contributions and untiring efforts, on the occasion of the late Exhibition, 

 have added so largely to the funds of the Society ; and .particularly to those 

 Ladles whose presence and exertions at the late Fair gave so much interest to 

 the occasion. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to those citizens of Ded - 

 ham by whose generous aid a cupola has been erected upon the Agricultural 

 Hall, and surmounted by an ornamental and useful vane. 



