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awarding of the premiums. The aid and comfort which they 

 afforded us will long be remembered and duly appreciated, and 

 we trust that the fair competitors will be better satisfied with 

 the awards, when they know that their own sex had a voice in 

 their distribution. And we recommend to our successors that 

 they too, if the Trustees should not see fit to appoint ladies on 

 these committees, associate with themselves their wives, or 

 other ladies, in the performance of the duties assigned them. 



The committee recommend the following premiums and 

 gratuities : 



COUNTERPANES. 



To Abigail Greenough, Groveland, for her knit cotton 



Counterpane, (formed by 1252588 stitches) first prem. 4 00 



To Eliza E. Cutts, (eleven years old,) Salem, for her 



hexagon patch Counterpane, second premium, 2 00 



To Sarah Lunt, Newbury, - - - 1 50 



To E. C. Green, Newburyport, - - - 1 50 



CARPETINGS. 



Only two pieces of Carpeting, and those of cut strips of cloth 

 woven by hand, without the use of loom or shuttle, containing 

 twenty or more square yards each, were entered in season for 

 premiums. For the manufacture of these they awarded : 

 To Martha B. Frothingham, first premium, - - 5 00 

 " Nancy W. Gray, Beverly, second premium, - 3 00 



" Elizabeth Deant, aged 81, on account of the remark- 

 able degree of industry and enterprise in the collect- 

 ing of the material, coloring, and completing a car- 

 pet for her small room, a gratuity - - - 2 00 



RUGS. 



To Sarah P. Wheeler, Salem, first premium, - 3 00 



" Elizabeth D. Poole, Rockport, second premium, 2 00 

 " Lucy B. Baker, Beverly, three braided mat, a gratuity 1 00 



" R. L. Woodbury, Hamilton, " 1 00 



'' Mary A. Dodge, Wenham, " 1 00 



" P. F. Atkinson, Andover, « 1 00 



" Mary Ann Perkins, Essex, " 1 00 



