6 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Act of the Legislature was formally accepted at this 

 meeting, and the agreement between the Trustees of the State 

 Reform School and the Board of Agriculture was approved. 

 The following is the 



CONTRACT. 



By authority of an Act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, entitled 

 " An Act relating to the State Reform School and the State Board of 

 Agriculture," approved by the Governor February 27, 1854, a cer- 

 tified copy of which is prefixed to this instrument, the Trustees of the 

 State Reform School do hereby transfer to and place under the charge 

 of the State Board of Agriculture all the lands and tenements at 

 Westborough, owned by the Commonwealth, excepting and reserving 

 the premises bounded, southerly by the lower edge of the embank- 

 ment in front of the main building of the State Reform School, as the 

 said embankment now is or may be made ; westerly by the fence near 

 the grove, and the line of said fence extended to the highway ; north- 

 erly and easterly by the highway ; and also excepting and reserving 

 the store-house east of the main building, the Peters House, so called, 

 and the shop on the easterly side of the highway, together with the 

 land under, and suitable land around said buildings, for the convenient 

 use of the same ; said Trustees also reserving to themselves and their 

 successors the right to have such portion of said premises as they may 

 see fit for the site and accommodation of such dwelling-houses or 

 other buildings as they may hereafter find it expedient to erect ; and 

 said Trustees also do hereby transfer to said Board of Agriculture all 

 the neat cattle, swine, implements of husbandry, horses, carriages, and 

 other personal property belonging to the Commonwealth, and now 

 upon said premises, excepting such horses, carriages, and harnesses 

 as said Trustees may elect to reserve for the immediate use of said 

 State Reform School; a schedule and valuation of all which real and 

 personal property so transferred shall be made by a committee of two 

 members of said Board of Trustees and two members of said Board of 

 Agriculture annexed to this instrument, and taken as part thereof* 

 And the State Board of Agriculture hereby assumes the charge of the 

 said real and personal property as fully as said Hoard is authorized to 

 do by the Act above referred to. The purpose of this arrangement is 

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

 management of the agricultural portion of the establishment at West- 

 igh, tn provide an experimental farm for tin- Board of A.gricul- 



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