28 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1886. 



Voted,— To build according to the revised plan of Mr. Boyden. 

 Voted, — Tliat the same Committee procure estimates and proposals. 

 Voted, — That Mr. Bickford be authorized to settle Mr. Joy's bill." 



''March 11: 



Meeting of Building Committee. All present. Several propo- 

 sals were received and read, all exceeding considerably $10,000: 

 the sum to which the Committee are limited by the Society. After a 

 long consideration of the subject, it was 



Voted, — To re-commit the plans and estimates to the same sub-committee 

 to be revised, to see what reductions and alterations can be made to reduce 

 the cost of the building. 



Voted,— To call a meeting of the corporation to be held on "Wednesday, the 

 26th inst. 



Voted, — To adjourn to next Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock. 



WILLIAM WORKMAN, Sec." 



It will be observed that the Building Committee had recourse 

 to the Corporation because the restriction of the original appro- 

 priation, $10,000, could not be made to cover the extravagance ! 

 of their plans. Their confidence vras not misplaced. For the 

 official record narrates that at a 



"Special Meeting of the Society, 



3farch 26, 1851. 

 The President called the meeting to order and presided. 

 On motion of Mr. George T. Rice, it was 



Voted, — That the Building Committee be authorized to expend the sum of 

 Two Thousand Dollars, in addition to the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, 

 already appropriated by a former vote for the purpose of completing the 

 building and furnishing the Hall, authorized by vote at the meeting held 

 Jany. 1st, 1851. 



Attest : JOHN GRAY, Sec'y." 



The Baildmg Committee hewing been thus re-inforced, the 

 rescued memorandum continues : — 



"J/arcA 28, 51. 



At a meeting of the Building Committee of the Horticultural 

 Society, the following alterations in the plan for the Horticultural Hall 

 were voted, — viz : 



Voted,— ThyX we adhere to the plan originally adopted for the roof, except 

 that the walls be raised sufficiently to make the trusses six feet in height : 

 Also that the Hall be lighted by a single sky-light in the centre of roof, 

 thirty feet in length by thirteen ft. in breadth, instead or three sky-lights. 



FoCed,— That the wall of cellar be two feet in thickness, and the parti- 

 tion wall eighteen inches : that the whole building, above basement, be fin- 

 ished with two coats of plastering; that the ceiling be arched, and at termi- 



