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For the same Committee, to continue the Card Catalogue 



of Plates, $100 



For the Committee on Publication and Discussion, . 250 



For Prizes for Window Gardening, .... 150 



For the compensation of the Secretary and Librarian and 



his Assistant, ....... 1,700 



For the salary of the Assistant to the Secretary and 



Librarian, to supply the deficiency for the year 1888, 25 



For the Committee of Arrangements, this sum to cover 



all extraordinary expenses of said Committee, . 300 



The Executive Committee also recommended that the expendi- 

 ture of $12.95, by the Committee of Arrangements, in excess of 

 the appropriation for the year 1888, be paid out of the appropria- 

 tion for the year 1889. 



The report was accepted, and the appropriations were unani- 

 mousl}' voted. 



The Executive Committee also reported the appointment of 

 Robert Manning as Secretary and Librarian, and W. Wyllys 

 Gannett as Treasurer and Superintendent of the Building. 



The Executive Committee also reported, in regard to the letter 

 of C. Harman Payne, Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the 

 National Chrysanthemum Societ}^ of England, referred to the Com- 

 mittee at the meeting of this Society on the 1st of December, that 

 no action is expedient. This report was accepted. 



The same Committee presented the following report : 

 The Executive Committee, after due investigation of the recent 

 amendment to Section XXXIII, of the Constitution and By-Laws, 

 adopted at the stated meeting on the 6th of October, 1888, by 

 which the award of prizes offered by the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society is restricted to members of the Society, unanimously 

 recommend to the Society that, as the said amendment conflicts 

 with the provisions of the State Statutes, said Section XXXIII 

 be restored, by striking out the words, "Prizes may be awarded 

 to any member of the Society and," and substituting the words, 

 "Prizes or," so that the Section shall commence as follows:— 

 " Prizes or gratuities may be awarded to any person." 



