No. 4.] MEETINGS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 5 



A request having been received from the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society that it might change the dates assigned 

 by the Board of Agriculture for the holding of its 1897 fair 

 (annual exhibition of fruits and vegetables) to September 30 

 and October 1, it was 



Voted, That the Massachusetts Horticultural Society be 

 allowed to change the dates for its 1897 fair to September 30 

 and October 1. 



Boston, April 2, 1897. 



A communication having been received from A. C. Var- 

 num, Esq., chairman of the committee on Agricultural College 

 and education, stating his wish that he be relieved of his posi- 

 tion on the committee on the ground of continued ill health, 

 the executive committee of the Board was consulted by letter, 

 and appointed Mr. George Cruickshanks, the second member 

 of the above-named committee, to be chairman ; filled the 

 vacancy thus caused by transferring Mr. Wesley B. Barton 

 from the committee on domestic animals and sanitation to the 

 committee on Agricultural College and education, and ap- 

 pointed Mr. Oscar S. Thayer to fill the vacancy thus caused 

 on the committee on domestic animals and sanitation. 



Boston, June 24, 1897. 



The meeting was called in part to consider the request of 

 the Plymouth County Agricultural Society for the approval 

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

 a special meeting of the society on June 12, 1897, " that the 

 president and treasurer be authorized and directed to execute 

 sixty bonds of one hundred dollars each, payable in ten years, 

 and bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, 

 the same as the one which has just been read, viz." [here 

 follows a copy of the bond]. " Voted unanimously, on mo- 

 tion of R. W. Nutter, that the treasurer be and he is hereby 

 authorized and directed to sign, acknowledge and deliver, in 

 the name and as the act of the Plymouth County Agricultural 

 Society, the deed which has just been read, conveying to 

 Augustus Pratt and Charles C. Thayer and their heirs and 

 assigns all the real estate owned by this society, with the 

 buildinos thereon, in niortsaffe and in trust, for the benefit 



