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Voted, On motion of Mr. Bowker, that the Chair appoint 

 a committee of three, to codify the rules and regulations of 

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

 by-laws as may seem necessary, to recommend the appoint- 

 ment of certain standing committees for the performance of 

 certain specified work, and to report at the next public 

 winter meeting of the Board. The Chair appointed Messrs. 

 Bowker, French and Appleton as the committee. 



The committee on essays for the next annual meeting re- 

 ported, by its chairman, Wm. H. Bowker, as follows : — 



Essays, 



The Restoration of Exhausted Farms by Practi- 

 cal Methods, Elbridge Cushman. 



Tobacco Culture, C. F. Fowler. 



Sheep on Our Western Hills, .... Wm. Bancroft. 



Cranberry Culture, Edmund Hersey. 



Report accepted and adopted. 



Voted, That the executive committee make a list of suit- 

 able men to perform the duty of experts in the different 

 classes in w^hich the Board requires experts, and that such 

 list be kept for the information of societies. 



Voted, That any unfinished business or any new business 

 that may arise before the next annual meeting be left in the 

 hands of the executive committee, with full power to act for 

 the Board. 



A vote of thanks was unanimously tendered the chairman, 

 Mr. Grinnell, for the able and indulgent manner in which iie 

 had discharged his duty as presiding ofiicer. 



Voted, That when the Board adjourn it be to the first 

 evening of the public winter meeting at Great Barrington, in 

 December next. 



The minutes of the meeting were read and approved. 



Adjourned. 



WILLIAM R. SESSIONS, 



Secretary. 



