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action adopted as the action of the Board. Also the records 

 of the special meeting at Great Barrington were read and 

 approved. 



A committee of three, to examine and report upon the 

 credentials of newly-elected members, was appointed by 

 the Chair : Messrs. Bancroft, Kilbourn and Newhall. 



Mr. Bowker, chairman of the committee appointed at the 

 last annual meeting to codify the rules and regulations of 

 the Board and all existing by-laws, to prepare such further 

 by-laws as might seem necessary, and to recommend the 

 appointment of certain standing committees for the perform- 

 ance of certain specified Avork, which committee reported at 

 the special meeting at Great Barrington and which report 

 was referred back to the committee, the committee enlarged, 

 and instructions given to report to the annual meeting, pre- 

 sented the amended report of the committee. ' 



The chairman of the committee read the proposed by-laws 

 chapter by chapter, each chapter being considered, amended 

 and accepted as read, and the whole was adopted by vote of 

 the Board. 



The roposed rules and regulations were then taken up 

 and considered rule by rule, and were accepted and adopted 

 as read. The proposed recommendations of the Board were 

 read and adopted. 



Mr. J. D. W. French offered the following resolutions, 

 which were unanimously passed : — 



Resolved^ That the State Board of Agriculture approves House 

 bill (H. R. No. 119), "A Bill to protect public forest reserva- 

 tions," and urges the immediate passage of said bill. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Sena- 

 tors and Representatives of this State in the United States Con- 

 gress. 



The secretary reported on matter of portrait of Hon. John 

 E. Russell. 



The secretary made report on the societies failing to com- 

 ply with the laws of the State and the regulations of the 



