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Committees and one dollar for each committee man when called 

 together by the chairmen. 



The Executive Committee have decided not to pay certain mem- 

 bers of the Garden Committee for their services on that Committee, 

 and I hereby object to that decision and enter at this time my 

 protest. 



Joseph H. Woodford. 



Michael H. Norton announced the decease of William Robinson, 

 and moved that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair 

 to prepare memorial resolutions. The motion was carried, and the 

 Chair appointed as that Committee Frederick L. Harris, Michael 

 H. Norton, and William J. Stewart. 



Tiie following named persons, having been recommended by 

 the Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were 

 on ballot duly elected : 



Carl Blomberg, of North Easton, 



HoLLis Webster, of Cambridge, 



James H. Dunlap, of Nashua, N. H., 



Otis E. Weld, of Boston, 



Edward J. Mitton, of Brookline, 



Matthew S. Higgins, of East Bridge water, 



Miss Alice B. Cary, of Lexington, 



Elihu G. Loomis, of Bedford, 



William S. H. Lotiirop, of Boston, 



Jerome Jones, of Brookline, 



CoL. Erederick Mason, of Taunton, 



Charles H. Moseley, of Dorchester, 



Charles U. Cotting, of Boston, 



Abner J. Moody, of Boston, 



Roland W. Toppan, of Maiden, 



Frederick Strong Moseley, of West Newbuiy, 



Henry Sturgis Grew, of Boston. 



The polls were closed at ten minutes past one o'clock, and the 

 Committee to receive, assort, and count the votes, and report the 

 number given, reported the whole number of votes cast to be 

 seventy, and that the memliers named in the ticket reported by 

 the Nominating Committee had a plurality of votes and were 

 elected. 



