30 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1886. 



Voted, — That the sub-committee be authorized to carry this vote into effect, 

 and that they be also authorized to insure the furniture that may be put into 

 the Hall. 



Voted, — That the Hall be heated by ventilating furnaces placed within, and 

 that the air for heating be introduced around the heaters through the walls 

 from without : and the sub-committee were authorized to carry the above 

 into effect. 



Voted, — Also, that the sub-committee be authorized to furnish a sufficient 

 number of settees for the use of the Hall. 



The meeting was dissolved without a, formal vote. 



WILLIAM WORKMAN, Sec." 



"1852. Jan. 7. 

 Meeting of the Committee at Horticultural Hall. 



Mr Raymond appeared before the Committee and presented his bill 

 for extras on building. After examining the bill, 



Voted, — To authorize the sub-Committee to settle with Mr. Raymond and 

 allow the bill except the charge for the panel work in sky-light. 

 Voted, — To adjourn. 



WILLIAM WORKMAN, Sec." 



"e7a?i. 12, 1852. 

 At a meeting of the Committee at Mutual Life Insurance Office 

 it was 



Voted, — To authorize D. W. Lincoln and Horatio N. Tower to superintend 

 the letting & furnishing the Horticultural Hall until further order. 

 Voted, — To adjourn. 



WILLIAM WORKMAN, Sec." 



With this last entry, that faintly pencilled memorandum comes 

 to an abrupt close ; neither in itself, nor elsewhere, being found 

 any'record of the discharge of a Committee whose trust had been 

 so scrupulously fulfilled. Without these brief minutes, we who 

 now manage the functions and transmit the possessions of the 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society would be left in entire 

 ignorance of the painstaking required to devise and provide ways 

 and means for the erection of this substantial edifice. The early 

 legacy was indispensable; the surrender of meagre premiums' 

 counted for something. But it is not an extreme assumption 

 that, were it not for the self-denial of a few of our original mem- 

 bers who hesitated not to pledge their personal security in beiialf 

 of what thej^ approved and advised, tlie Hall that has been for 

 80 long the home of this Society and wherein it has done such 



