4 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. No. 4. 



dates were made for the best good of these several societies, 

 the Executive Committee deems it inexpedient to change the 

 dates of the Bristol County Agricultural Society. 



Boston, May 3, 1901. 



The credential of John S. Anderson of Shelburne, elected 

 by the Franklin County Agricultural Society to the Board 

 of Agriculture, was presented and accepted. 



The Middlesex North Agricultural Society having filed 

 its transactions for 1900, the delinquency was excused. 



The request of the Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society for the approval by the Board 

 of Agriculture of its vote, passed at a special meeting of the 

 society, on April 20, 1901, "To mortgage the property of 

 the society to Mrs. Kimball for seventeen hundred dollars," 

 being in order, the mutter was considered. 



The president and delegate of the society were present, 

 and stated the reasons for the mortgage. There was pre- 

 sented a certified copy of the records of the meeting, show- 

 ing that it was legally called and that the vote to mortgage 

 was unanimous ; also a postal card notice of the call for the 

 meeting, and also copies of the advertisement of the hearing 

 by the Board of Agriculture. 



No person appearing in opposition to the request, it was 



Voted, To approve for the Board of Agriculture the above- 

 quoted vote of the Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society, in accordance with the provisions 

 of chapter 274, Acts of 1890. . 



Swansea, Aug. 23, 1901. 



Voted, To grant the request of the Manufacturers' Agri- 

 cultural Society in North Attleborough to hold its 1901 fair 

 on October 8, 9 and 10, instead of on the dates granted by 

 the Board at the annual meeting. 



The Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society having filed 

 its transactions for 1900, the delinquency was excused. 



