No. 4.] MEETINGS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 5 



1900, "authorizing the oflScers to mortgage their grounds 

 for the sum of $10,000, to pay existing indebtedness," being 

 in order, the matter was considered. 



There was presented a certified copy of the records of 

 the meeting, showing that it was legally called and that the 

 vote was passed by the necessary two-thirds ; also advertise- 

 ments of the hearing and of the call for the special meeting. 

 The delegate from the said society also appeared in the in- 

 terests of the request for approval. 



No person appearing in opposition, it was 



Voted, To approve for the Board of Agriculture the 

 above-quoted vote of the Hoosac Valley Agricultural So- 

 ciety, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 274, 

 Acts of 1890. 



The request of the Middlesex North Agricultural Society 

 for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of its vote, 

 passed at a special meeting of the society, Dec. 27, 1899, 

 " That Sidney Drewett be and hereby is authorized and em- 

 powered, as treasurer of the Middlesex North Agricultural 

 Society, to borrow in its name and behalf, at his discretion, 

 a sum not exceeding $2,500, for the use of said society, for 

 such time and upon such terms as he may deem advisable, the 

 rate of interest not to exceed five per cent per annum, pay- 

 able semi-annually, and therefor to sign and give the pro- 

 missory note of said society ; and also that Henry S. Perham 

 as president and the said Sidney Drewett as treasurer of 

 the society be and hereby are authorized and empowered, 

 in its name and behalf, to make, execute and acknowledge a 

 mortgage deed with power of sale in the usual form, and 

 affix thereto the seal of said society, and such deed to 

 deliver as security for the payment of said note, therein 

 and thereby conveying, subject to an existing mortgage 

 from said society to the Lowell Institution for Savings for 

 the principal sum of $9,000, dated Jan. 23, A.D. 1890, all 

 the real estate belonging to said society, situate on the 

 easterly side of said Gorham Street in said Lowell, known 

 as the fair grounds, together with any land theretofore ac- 

 quired by the said society from the Lowell bleachery and 

 situated on the southerly side of the fair grounds and to 



