140 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Special Meeting of the Society, to be held at Horticultural Hall,. 

 No. 101 Tremont Street, Boslou, on Saturda}-, the twenty-second 

 day of May, 1897, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to determine 

 whether the Society will ratify an agreement lately made by the 

 Finance Committee, subject to ratification by the Society, for the 

 settlement of the controversies respecting the will and trusts of 

 Francis B. Hayes, deceased ; and also to consider what action 

 the Society will take for the determination of questions which 

 shall have arisen or may arise respecting the interests of the 

 Society under said will and trusts, and the care and management 

 of property which may come to the Society thereunder. 

 (Signed) Francis H. Appletox, 

 President Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Robert Manning, 



Secretary. 



At this meeting the President, Francis H. Appleton, was in the 

 chair. The call for the meeting was read by the Secretary. It was 

 voted to dispense with the reading of the records of the last meeting. 



The President appointed the following named members as the 

 Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums for the 



year 1897 : 



Henry L. Clapp, Chairman. 

 Mrs. H. L. T. Wolcott, Mrs. P. D. Richards, 



George E. Davenport, William P. Rich, 



Miss Katharine \V. Huston, W. E. C. Rich, Secretary. 



The President stated that Joseph B. Warner, Esq., who had 

 been employed by the Finance Committee as counsel for the 

 Society in the Hayes will case, was present, and it w^as voted to 

 hear Mr. Warner in regard to that matter. 



Mr. AVarner submitted to the meeting an agreement dated May 

 14, 1897, made by the Finance Committee, on behalf of the Society, 

 with Nino K. Hayes, William Minot, guardian of Harold Hayes, 

 and Augustus P. Loring, and approved by the Attorney-General 

 of tlie Commonwealth, providing for the settlement of certain 

 questions respecting the will of Francis B. Hayes, deceased. 

 Subsequently it was moved by Ex-President William C. Strong, 

 and seconded by Benjamin P. Ware, that the following vote be 

 passed : 



