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INVENTORY OF THE SOCIETY'S PROPERTY. 



78 Cattle Pens, $10 each, - 

 Poultry Stands, 

 Tables for Exhibition Hall, 

 Glass Case for Exhibition Hall, 

 2 Trunks for Maces, Tickets, &c., 

 26 Batons for Marshals, 



Lot of Cloth for Show Tables, - 

 2 Library Cases, 

 650 Books and Pamphlets in Library, 

 Dynamometer, 



LIBRARY. 



The Library of the Society is kept at the Court House, in Salem. The Secre- 

 tary acts as the Librarian, and will deliver books under the following regulations ; 



1 . Each member shall be entitled to take from the Library two volumes, on 

 signing a receipt for the same, and agreeing to be accountable therefor. 



2. No member shall keep any book more than two weeks, after being notified 

 by the Librarian that the same is wanted by another member. 



3. All books belonging to the Library, shall be returned on or before the 15th 

 of November, in each year ; that the same may be examined, and the condition of 

 the Library reported to the Trustees. 



4. Any member who shall neglect or refuse to conform to these regulations, 

 shall forfeit the privilege of taking books from the Library. 



Note. All who have paid the initiatory fee of three dollars towards the funds 

 of the Society ; all who have received certificates of membership by order of the 

 Trustees, and all ordained ministers of the gospel, resident within the County, are 

 considered as members. Editors of newspapers published in the County, are also, 

 by vote of the Society, entitled to the privileges of the Library. 



DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY, 1854. 



Nineteen bound volumes of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and the Trans- 

 actions of the Highland Society of Scotland, comprising the series from 1 828 to 

 1843, have been presented to the Society by Kichard S. Fay, Esq., of Lynn, — a 

 most valuable addition to the Library. 



