Meetings of the Executive Committee, 



ACTING FOR THE BOARD. 



Boston, Jan. 30, 1897. 



The meeting was called in part to consider the request of 

 the Franklin County Agricultural Society for the approval 

 by the Board of Agriculture of the vote of the said society 

 "to mortgage the real estate of the society for a sum not 

 exceeding twenty-three hundred dollars, to liquidate the debt 

 of the society." There was presented an attested copy of 

 the call for the meeting and of the vote of the society above 

 quoted, which copy stated that the vote was passed by affirm- 

 ative vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 



There was also presented a copy of the ' ' Greenfield Ga- 

 zette " of January 23, containing the required advertisement 

 of the hearing. 



No person appearing in opposition to the vote of the so- 

 ciety, it was 



Voted, To approve the vote of the Franklin County Agri- 

 cultural Society, above quoted, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of chapter 274 of the Acts of 1890. 



The matter of bills for the regulation of the sale of concen- 

 trated commercial feed stuff's, which matter was referred to 

 the executive committee at the recent annual meeting of the 

 Board, being in order, it was 



Voted, To adopt the second bill, with twelve hundred dol- 

 lars as the amount to be inserted as the sum to be allowed 

 the Hatch Experiment Station for expense of enforcing the 

 law if enacted. 



Voted, That Mr. Kelton, House chairman of the commit- 

 tee on agriculture, be requested to introduce the bill.* 



The matter of taking membership in the American Asso- 

 ciation of Institute Managers, which matter was referred to 



* See chapter 117, Acts of 1897. 



