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TRANSACTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRUS- 

 TEES. 



*^l a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Essex Agricultural 

 Society, Fcljruai^j 6th, Jl. D. 1826 — Present seventeen members: — 



Voted, unanimously. That the next Annual Meeting and Public 

 Exhibition of the Society, be at the South Parish in Danvers, on 

 Thursday the 12th day of October next. 



Voted, That the President and Secretary be a Committee to 

 prepare and pubhsh a hst of premiums to be offered the present 

 year. 



Voted, That Nathan Felton, Jesse Putnam and John W. Proc- 

 tor, be a Committee of Arrangements for the next Exhibition. 



Voted, That Messrs. Pickering, Tucker, Howes, Proctor and 

 Putnam, be a committee to procure a suitable, plate to be engrav- 

 ed, for a certificate of Premiums. 



Voted, That the Secretary be authorized to subscribe for ten 

 copies of the current volume of the JVew-England Farmer, to be 

 distributed as premiums at the next Exhibition. 



Voted, That the expenses incurred by certain individuals in 

 Topsfield, in building permanent Cattle Pens for the use of the 

 Society, to the amount of $108 85 cents, be refunded by the 

 Treasurer of the Society. 



Attest, JOHN W. PROCTOR, Sec'y. 



