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in its affairs, especially if they are inclined to compete 

 for its premiums, is considered, by such persons, an 

 inexcusable innovation, and an attempt to curtail their 

 privileges; and they would have a policy pursued 

 by the society which will correspond with its supposed 

 limits. The real limits of the Society are very much 

 broader than thus represented. As I am not aware 

 that the original act of incorporation of our Society has 

 ever been published in its " Transactions," and as that 

 instrument, in connection with two subsequent acts of 

 the Legislature, will set at rest this question, I propose 

 to give them in full, in this connection. 



He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives , in Gen- 

 eral Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows'- 



Nathaniel Wood, I vers Phillips and Abel F. Adams, their associates 

 and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the 

 Fitchburg Agricultural Society, for the encouragement of agricul- 

 ture and the mechanic arts, by premiums and other means, in the 

 Town of Fitch burg, in the County of Worcester, with all the powers 

 and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions 

 set forth in the forty-second and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised 

 Statutes, and in all subsequent acts concerning Agricultural Societies ; 

 and said corporation may hold and manage real estate not exceeding in 

 value fifteen thousand dollars, and personal estate not exceeding the 

 same sum, for the purposes aforesaid. (Approved by the Governor, 

 March 30th, 1852.) 



*'An Act concerning the Fitchburg Agricultural Society. Be it 

 enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 



Sec. 1. The Fitchburg Agricultural Society shall, after the passage 

 of this act, be called and known by the name of the Worcester North 

 Agricultural Society, and they are hereby authorized to admit mem- 

 bers from the towns in the west part of Middlesex County. 



Sec. 2. The said Society shall be entitled, on the same terms as 

 other incorporated Agricultural Societies to receive annually, out of the 

 Treasury of the Commonwealth, such sums as any other Agricultural 

 Society may receive, under the provisions of Chapter 42, of the Revised 

 Statutes, notwithstanding the restrictions of Section seven of that 

 Chapter. 



House of Representatives, May 21, 1853. 

 Passed to be enacted. C. H. WARREN, President. 



May 23, 1853. Approved. JOHN H. CLIFFORD." 



