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the Worcester County Horticultural Society, of which 

 he was so long the President, and in whose welfare 

 he took so deep an interest. 



"We also inclose the amount of the bequest made 

 by him to the Society, in the following terms : — 



"'I give to the Worcester County Horticultural So- 

 ciety the sum of One Thousand Dollars, the same to be 

 invested and the income thereof to be applied to the 

 purchase of books for its library.' 



"Yours respectfully, 



"FRANCIS H. DEWEY, 

 "JOHJN^ C. DEWEY, 

 "GEORGE T. DEWEY, 



"Executors of the will of Francis H. Dewey." 



Mr. Lincoln added that it had occurred to him, upon 

 receipt of the communication, that a recognition of it, 

 however official, would acquire grace from being timely. 

 He had therefore taken it upon himself to prepare some 

 Resolutions that seemed to him appropriate and which 

 he would submit for their acceptance : — 



Resolved : By the Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society, upon this first meeting since the decease of 

 their late President, Francis Henshaw Dewey, that 

 its members would place upon record their deep sense 

 of the loss sustained by them, in common with the gen- 

 eral interests of Horticulture throughout the County. 



Resolved : That we adopt and reiterate as our own 

 the expressions of mournful sensibility uttered by our 

 Trustees at the very time of the sad event. 



