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invaluable services, — preserving, as they have done, the life and 

 vigor of the Society, and elevating it to its distinguished place 

 among its kindred institutions in the Commonwealth and country ; 

 and the assurance that his name and memory will ever be cherished 

 by us with a profound sensibility of his personal excellence in every 

 department of life, — of his eminent ability and usefulness in pro- 

 moting the arts of Horticulture and Agriculture ; and, in particular, 

 of his services and noble beneftictions to the Norfolk Agricultural 

 Society: 



Resolved^ That, with the hope and earnest desire that his health 

 may be perfectly restored, and his life of usefulness prolonged, for 

 the benefit of all those public institutions and private relations with 

 which he is connected, we especially hope and desire that we may 

 still have the benefit of his presence, sympathy and counsel in fu- 

 ture transactions of this Society : , 



Therefore^ Resolved^ That our late President, the Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder, be, and he is hereby unanimously constituted the first 

 Honorary President of the Norfolk Agricultural Society. 



Mr. Wilder made S, brief and feeling response to these Reso- 

 lutions. 



A committee, consisting of Messrs. C. C. Churchill of Ded- 

 ham, Bradlee of Milton, Denny of Brookline, Bartlett of West 

 Eoxbury, Balch of Medfield, was appointed by the Chair to re- 

 port a committee of nine, whose duty it should be to prepare 

 the new grounds at Readville for the use and occupancy of the 

 Society. The Committee reported the following list : Hon. 

 John S. Eldridge, Canton ; William R. Mann, Sharon ; Alden 

 Bartlett, West Roxbury ; John D. Bradlee, Milton ; A. B. En- 

 dicott, Dedham ; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph ; Richard 

 Holmes, Roxbury ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park, and C. C. Churchill, 

 Dedham. The report was amended by adding the names of E. 

 L. Metcalf, Franklin ; Charles Hamant, Medfield ; John W. 

 Thomas, Dedham ; and Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury ; and 

 then adopted. 



The Committee were instructed to advertise for proposals in 

 at least two Boston papers, and in the county papers, the con- 

 tracts to be given respectively to the lowest responsible bidders. 



Voted to adopt and make record of the report of the com- 

 mittee appointed to make sale and transfer of the property of 

 the Society, and to purchase new grounds and secure the neces- 



