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As Rule 9 of the General Rules and Regulations provides for 

 such cases it was voted to call the attention of the chairmen of the 

 exhibition committees to this rule and to notify all parties interested 

 that hereafter exliibits must be made in the name of the owners. 



The special committee on protests appointed at the meeting 

 held December 8, 1906, presented its report as follows: 



A meeting of the Committee on Protests of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society having been duly called, and the protestants of the vegetable 

 awards at the Exhibition of October 10, 1906, having been duly notified 

 that the Committee would hear them, was held in the Committee Room of 

 the Society on November 21, 1907, at 2.30 P. M. Of the Committee there 

 were present the Chairman, Mr. William H. Spooner, and Mr George E. 

 Cabot. Of the protestants, Mr. E. L. Lewis, and on behalf of the Com- 

 mittee which awarded the prizes, Mr. W. H. Heustis. 



Mr. Lewis was called upon to give his reasons for protesting the awards, 

 and the Committee listened to his reasons at length upon the subject. 



Mr. Heustis was then asked to state for the Committee on Prizes his 

 views as to the justice of the awards, and thereafter these gentlemen with- 

 drew. 



The Committee unanimously 



Voted: — That having heard the protest of Mr. Lewis, and the statement 

 of Mr. Heustis for the Vegetable Committee of 1906, and after giving the 

 matter careful consideration, they are of the opinion that the Vegetable 

 Committee awarded the prizes according to their best judgment, and 

 without bias. 



Voted: — That in the opinion of the Committee a rule should be added 

 to those now in force that all exhibits grown on the grounds of Public Insti- 

 tutions should be exhibited in the name of the Institution and not entitled 

 to compete for prizes other than gratuities. 



Voted: — That in the opinion of the Committee all awards made by 

 the several Exhibition Committees should be final. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



George E. Cabot, 

 For the Committee on Protests. 



It was voted that the report of the Committee on Protests be 

 accepted and placed on file. 



Mr. Pettigrew, chairman of the special committee on nomina- 

 tions for the Standing Committees of the Society for the year 1908, 

 presented a list of names which, after some modification, was 

 ccepted as follows: 



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