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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



[1872. 



COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. 



For many y^fii'^ pfi'^t the devastation of early vegetables, as well as of 

 Summer and Autumn Fruits, by the feathered pets of Legislation, has 

 been a source of insutfei'able annoyance and loss to many meml)oi's of 

 this Society. My predecessor, in his Annual Report, stated that he had 

 addressed a Petition to the General Court, in accordance with the in- 

 structions of your Trustees, praying iicrmission of a remedy for such 

 injuries, and adding that the Petition quietly slumbered in the custody of 

 the Joint Committee on Agriculture. This statement was not literally 

 exact, insomuch as that Committee, without any hearing of the Petition- 

 ers, had reported leave lo withdraw, — which report was summarily 

 accepted. Upon ascertaining this discreditable fact, the following 

 memorial was transmitted to the General Court, by your present Secre- 

 tary — the author of the original motion for a Petition in the Board of 

 Trustees: — 



To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives^ in General Court 

 assembled: 

 The undersigned, a citizen of the Commonwea^i, protesting against 

 the Non-Feasance of a (Committee of your Honorable Bodies by which 

 gross injustice has been done to men in every respect their peers, sets 

 forth for your information that, at the Annual Meeting of the Trustees 

 of the Worcester County JlorlicuUural Society, a corporation duly estab- 

 lished by law, it was unanimously voted, on motion of the undersigned, 



