2 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Board had examined the farm connected with the State 

 Reform School at Westborough, and finding it -well adapted for 

 the purpose, and that the Trustees of that institution were de- 

 sirous to forward so important an object, resolved to petition 

 the Legislature for an Act authorizing the transfer of the farm 

 into the hands of the Board of Agriculture. This was accord- 

 ingly done by a committee acting in conjunction with a com- 

 mittee of the Trustees, and the following paper was presented 



To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled: — 



The subscribers, a committee of the Trustees of 'the State Reform 

 School, and a committee of the State Board of Agriculture, and in 

 behalf of said Boards, respectfully pray your honorable body to pass 

 an Act authorizing the Trustees of the State Reform School to place 

 the whole or any part of the lands at Westborough, owned by the 

 Commonwealth, under the charge of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 for such term and on such conditions as may be agreed upon by the 

 two Boards, and to authorize the Board of Agriculture to hold and 

 manage the same ; and also respectfully pray your honorable body to 

 grant an appropriation to the State Board of Agriculture of the sum 

 of thousand dollars, for the purpose of permanent improve- 

 ments and agricultural experiments, and to defray the ordinary ex- 

 penses of said farm for the current year. 



And as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. 



Daniel H. Forbes, 

 Harvey Dodge, 

 J. II. W. Page, 

 Committee of the Trustees of the State Reform School. 



Marshall P. Wilder, 

 Setii Sprague, 

 Simon Bhown, 

 Charles L. Flint. 



Committee of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 January 26, L854. 



The Committee of the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives, to whom this petition was referred, made the following 



