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conveyance, according to the vote of the executive com- 

 mittee, May 24, the approval of the Board of Agriculture 

 was given to the vote of the Bristol County Agricultural 

 Society, that the Board of Directors be authorized to 

 acquire or convey real estate in order to lay out a street 

 connecting Agricultural Avenue with Highland Street, and 

 a certificate to that effect was sent by the secretary to Mr. 

 "VV. C. Baylies, president of the Bristol County Agricultural 

 Society. 



Boston, Aug. 13, 1895. 

 A request having been received from Mr. F. H. Newell, 

 "Washington, D. C, secretary of the American Forestry 

 Association, for the appointment of a delegate to represent 

 this Board at the meeting of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 3 and 4, 1895, the 

 executive committee this day appointed Mr. Francis H. 

 Appleton of Peabody the said delegate. 



Worcester, Sept. 4, 1895. 



The meeting was called to consider the request of the 

 Berkshire Agricultural Society for the approval by the 

 Board of Agriculture of the vote of said society to author- 

 ize a committee to borrow money to pay the present indebt- 

 edness of the said society, and to sign a mortgage and notes 

 therefor ; to sell such portion of the society's grounds as 

 they shall deem advisable, to sign deeds or other papers 

 necessary, and to apply the proceeds to the indebtedness of 

 the society. A certified copy of the records of the meeting 

 of the society, at which it was voted unanimously to do the 

 above-named acts, was presented by the president of the 

 society, Mr. TV. B. Barton, who also presented copies of 

 the " Berkshire Eagle," containing the required advertise- 

 ment of the hearing, one of the three insertions of the 

 notice having been at least one week before the date of 

 hearing. No person appearing in opposition to the request 

 of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, it was 



Voted, To approve the vote of the Berkshire Agricult- 

 ural Society, passed Dec. 6, 1894, granting full power to 



