ANNIVERSARY DINNER — SMITH PRIZES. 15 



Charles H. B. Breck, Chairman of the Committee appointed 

 February 6, presented the following report : 



The Committee appointed to take into consideration the matter 

 of a public dinner at the close of the Annual Exhibition in 

 September, have attended to that duty and would respectfully 

 submit the following report : 



First. That the Society be recommended to have a public 

 dinner in their own or some other suitable hall, to which ladies 

 shall be invited, and that the price of tickets to the same be fixed 

 at two dollars. 



Second. That the Society be recommended to appropriate a 

 sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to defray incidental 

 expenses. 



Third. That the President be requested to appoint a Com- 

 mittee of Arrangements, consisting of seven members, to carry 

 the foregoing votes into effect. 



The report was accepted and adopted. The chair appointed as 

 the Committee, Charles H. B. Breck, Francis Parkman, William 

 Gray, Jr., John C. Hovey, Hervey Davis, William H. Halliday, 

 and E. F. Washburn. The appropriation, under the By-Laws, was 

 laid upon the table until the first Saturday in October. 



The Treasurer announced that he had received from Peter 

 Smith, of Andover, the sum of fifty dollars to be appropriated 

 to Special Prizes. The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. 

 Smith for his donation, which was placed at the disposal of the 

 Committee for Establishing Prizes. 



George B. Brown, of Boston, 

 Edward Haskell, of New Bedford, 

 were elected to membership. 



Adjourned to the first Saturday in August. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, August 7, 1875. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 President Parkman in the chair. 



