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S3. Second gratuity, to H, H. Pillsbury, Danvers, for top 



box buggy. 

 Si. Gratuity, to H. H. Pillsbury, Danvers, for collection of 



carriages. 

 $1. Gratuity, to John H. Clark, Amesbury, for two-spring 



Phaeton. 

 S3. Second gratuity, to Thos. W. Lane, Amesbury, for road 



wagon. 

 Si. Gratuity, to B. F. Lewis, Amesbury, for Amesbury 



road wagon. 

 $3. Second gratuity, to E. C. Sawyer, Beverly, for north. 



shore wagon. 

 $1. Gratuity, to E. C. Sawyer, Beverly, for Lawrence beach 



wagon. 

 Si. Gratuity, to E. C. Sawyer, Beverly, for collection of 



carriages. 

 So. First gratuity, to Charles Rowell & Son, Amesbury, for 



extension Top Rockaway. 

 The Committee would award for special merit, a diploma to 

 Briggs Carriage Co., of Amesbury, for a six passenger wagon 

 ette, as being superior in workmanship and finish, the best car- 

 riage for the mone}', on the list exhibited. 



Geo. T. Merrill, Wm. A. Bray, Geo. H. Plumer, James Wil- 

 son — Committee. 



REPORT OF CARRIAGE COMMITTEE. 



To the Secretary of the Essex Agricultural Society: 



Where or when originated, or by whom the first wheeled 

 vehicle was made belongs to the realm of mystical lore. Doubt- 

 less when the earlier inhabitants moved inland from the water- 

 ways they sought some method by which to transport, easily, 

 their material ; and then began the era of wheels for vehicles. 

 History tells us that the Assyrians builded war chariots and 



