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TRANSACTIONS 



The new Agricultural Hall is seventy-five feet in length, 

 and sixty-two feet in width. It is spacious and adapted to 

 the purposes for which it is designed. One half of the ex- 

 pense of fitting up the Hall is borne by the Society, on con- 

 dition that the Society has the use of it for exhibitions, pay- 

 ing a reasonable rent ; and that the Society have one half of 

 the income from the rents of the Hall. 



The other half of the cost of the Hall was borne by Hon. 

 John Dickinson, Luke Sweetser, Levi D. Cowles, Hon. Ed- 

 ward Dickinson, Charles Adams, J. W. Boyden, William 

 Cutler, Allen &. Palmer, and R. S. Lincoln. 



The great size of the Hall and its convenient internal 

 arrangements, enable it to exhibit to advantage all the various 

 articles, and to avoid subjecting visitors to the annoyance of a 

 crowd. The Hall has more than met the most sanguine ex- 

 pectations of the officers of the Society. The amount re- 

 ceived at the door, from persons who are not members of the 

 Society, indicates that the sum expended in fliting up the 

 Hall, will, in a few years, be returned to the treasury 



