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rules of the Board in holding its 1901 fair on other days than 

 those assigned it by the Board, and that at 2.30 o'clock p.m. 

 the Franklin County Agricultural Society be heard on its 

 request for the Board's approval of its vote to mortgage its 

 real estate. 



At 1 o'clock the Board adjourned to 2 p.m. 



The Board was called to order at 2 p.m. 



The special assignments being in order, the matter of the 

 Bristol County Agricultural Society was taken up and con- 

 sidered, and the matter was discussed by the officers and 

 representatives of the society and by members of the Board. 

 The Board then went into executive session, and after re- 

 marks by several members it was 



Voted, unanimously, that the request of the Bristol County 

 Agricultural Society for the assignment of certain days in 

 the last week in September for its fair be not granted. 



Voted, unanimously, that the Board of Agriculture, having 

 heard the Bristol County Agricultural Society in regard to 

 its violation of the reo-ulations of the Board in the matter of 

 holding its 1901 fair, is of the opinion that the said society 

 is not entitled to bounty from the State. 



Voted, on recommendation of the committee on creden- 

 tials, that the credential of Mr. William A. Lane as delegate 

 to the Board from the Bristol County Agricultural Society 

 be not accepted. 



The request of the Franklin County Agricultural Society 

 for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of its vote, 

 passed at its annual meeting, held Dec. 21, 1901, " That a 

 committee of three be appointed, to act with the president 

 and treasurer, to execute a note or notes secured by a mort- 

 gage or mortgages, to raise money to pay part or all of the 

 outstanding obligations of the Franklin County Agricultural 

 Society, including the indebtedness to the Exhibition Hall 

 Company, with the approval of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture," being in order, the matter was heard. 



