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At this meeting, also, a series of By-Laws was adopted for 

 the management and regulation of the farm, as follows : — 



Sect. 1. The principal objects of the Board of Agriculture are, 

 to relieve the Trustees of the State Reform School of the care 

 and management of the agricultural portion of the establishment at 

 Westborough, to provide a farm for the Board where experiments 

 may be made in stock and the various crops and fertilizers, and to 

 furnish greater facilities for the employment and instruction of the 

 inmates of the Reform School, in agriculture and horticulture, in 

 accordance with what is believed to have been the views of Gen. 

 Thodore Lyman, the founder of the institution ; and with a view to 

 carrying out these objects of the Board, and giving opportunity for 

 discussing its interests and maturing and carrying out its plans, the 

 annual meeting of the Board shall be at the State House on the first 

 Wednesday of January, at 10 o'clock A. M., at which time the 

 several committees of the Board shall be elected. Its quarterly 

 meetings shall be held on the farm, at Westborough, on the first 

 Wednesday of April, on the first Wednesday of July, and on the third 

 Wednesday of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. of each year. 



Sect. 2. There shall be annually elected by the Board a Superin- 

 tending Committee of the farm at Westborough, consisting of eight 

 members, whose duty it shall be, in connection with the Secretary, so 

 far as the same may be consistent with a performance of his other 

 duties, to meet at said farm once in each month, and as much oftencr 

 as they may deem necessary, to make such arrangements and give 

 such directions to the former as the various crops, trees, stock, and 

 other interests of the farm may require, and shall make a full report 

 of their doings to the Board at its quarterly meetings. And said 

 committee may be subdivided into smaller committees, in such 

 manner as they may see fit, each of which shall keep accurate memo- 

 randa or records of their doings, and report the same, from time to 

 time, to the Secretary ; and it shall be his duty, from these reports 

 and such other means of information as he may possess, to keep a 

 record of the lots under cultivation, with their number and contents in 

 measure ; of the manner of draining, reclaiming, ploughing, cultivat- 

 ing and manuring, stating the kind of land in use, the kind and 

 quantity of the fertilizer used, when and how applied, the state of 

 the atmosphere when applied, and the amount of each crop gathered, 

 together with the results of the whole process. 



Sect. 3. The Secretary shall notify members of the times of meet- 

 ing of the Board, call its committees together whenever three or more 

 members of a committee shall deem it necessary, keep a journal of 

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