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(The motion was unanimously adopted.) 



The Chairman. I wish to make one statement about 

 what has been alluded to hy the Secretary, by way of 

 explanation why the audience of to-day is so much smaller 

 than it was yesterday. To-day is the annual meeting of the 

 old Berkshire Society, incorporated in 1811. There are 

 questions of vital importance to come before that society for 

 action, and many gentlemen have gone to that meeting who 

 otherwise would have been here to-day, although I see a 

 great many here to-day whom I did not expect, and I hope 

 you will accept this explanation, and understand that their 

 absence is not due to any want of respect for the Board. 



Now, gentlemen, in l)ehalf of the Housatonic Society and 

 in l)ehalf of the citizens of Great Barrington, I return thanks 

 for the acceptance by the Board of our invitation. Hoping 

 and wishing, gentlemen, that I may hear of the safe return 

 of each and all of you to your homes, we will call this meet- 

 ins: dissolved. 



