SPECIAL MEETING. 



A special meeting of the State Board of Agriculture was 

 held at the office of the secretary, in Boston, on Thursday, 

 Jan. 30, 1902, at 11 o'clock, First Vice-President Sessions 

 presiding. 



Present: Messrs. F. H. Appleton, Avery, Barton, 

 Bursley, Boise, Carpenter, Clark, Damon, Danforth, 

 Ellsworth, Goodell, Goodspeed, Gurney, Jewett, Kilbourn, 

 Lyman, Hersey, Richardson, Sargent, Sessions, Smith, 

 Spooner, Stockwell, Thayer, Turner and Wellington. 



The meeting was called by request to consider the action 

 of the Board at its annual meeting with reference to the 

 Bristol County Agricultural Society. 



Voted, Unanimously, not to reconsider the votes passed 

 at the recent annual meeting with reference to the Bristol 

 County Agricultural Societ}^. 



Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the 

 Chair, to confer with the representatives of the Bristol 

 County Agricultural Society and the "VV^mouth Agricul- 

 tural and Industrial Society, to see if some arrangement 

 cannot be made whereby the difficulty may be overcome. 

 The Chair appointed Messrs. Jewett, Barton and Richardson 

 as the committee. 



The secretary reported that the financial and premium 

 returns of the Spencer and Worcester societies, and that the 

 transactions of the Highland, Hillside, Middlesex North, 

 Plymouth County and Worcester North-west societies, had 

 been received since the 10th of January, with reasons for 

 the delay, and it was 



Voted, To excuse the delinquencies of these societies. 



