No. 4.] MEETINGS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 7 



expenses in attending the Farmers' National Congress, they 

 being, by appointment of His Excellency, associate delegates 

 to the said Congress, being brought up, it was 



Voted, That there be a special meeting of the Board 

 of Agriculture at Boston on Oct. 4 and 5, 1899, in connec- 

 tion with the Farmers' National Congress. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Massachusetts Board of 

 Agriculture be extended to the Hon. John E. Russell for 

 the excellent portrait of himself which he has so kindly 

 donated to said Board, and which now hangs on the walls 

 of the private office of the secretary ; and that the secretary 

 be instructed to inform him of this action. 



