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You will keep an account of your expenses, to be submitted with 

 the proper vouchers to the Council, in order to the quarterly settle- 

 ment of your accounts ; and you will be pleased, at the close of each 

 quarter, to make a summary report to the Executive, of the general 

 progress of the survey. 



Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



(Signed) EDWARD EVERETT. 

 Rev. H. Colman. 



[B.] 

 CIRCULAR. 



To the Farmers of Massachusetts on the subject of an Agricultural 

 Survey of the State by the authority of the Legislature. 



To 



Sir : — Having been appointed by the Executive of the Common- 

 wealth, under the provisions of a Resolve of the Legislature, passed at 

 its last session, Commissioner to make an Agricultural Survey of the 

 State, I take the liberty of addressing this Circular to several gentle- 

 men of intelligence and respectability in the different towns, yourself 

 among others, with a view to obtain their advice and co-operation in 

 accomplishing such survey. 



You will allow me, then, to point out the general objects of inquiry; 

 and to solicit particularly your attention to them ; that when I visit 

 you, as I shall ask the pleasure of doing, you will be able to give me, 

 in respect to those which have been the subjects either of your experi- 

 ence, inquiry, or observation, the desired information. By the Resolve 

 it is made the duty of the Commissioner " To collect accurate infor- 

 mation of the state and condition of the Agriculture of the Common- 

 wealth, and every subject connected with it; point out the means of 

 improvement; and make a detailed report thereof, with as much exact- 

 ness as circumstances will admit." From the terms of the Resolve it 

 is apparent that the duty is very comprehensive ; as it embraces every 



