20 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Provisional Organization of the Socikty-. 



In accordance with tliis invitation, a considerable number of per- 

 sons interested in the subject met at the time and place designated. 

 The first day of the session was devoted to the consideration of 

 the subject proposed, and after full discussion it was voted: "That 

 it is expedient to establish such a society," and a committee was 

 appointed to report a plan of organization and nominate officers 

 for the society. 



The committee reported, recommending that the society should 

 be known as the "Maine State Pomological Society," and desig- 

 nating the following persons as officers, viz: President, Z. A. Gilbert 

 of East Turner; Vice Presidents, Geo. W. Woodman, Portland, A. 

 L. Simpson, Bangor; Secretary, Geo. B. Sawyer, Wiscasset ; Cor- 

 responding Secretary, J. 0. Weston, Bangor; Treasurer, Charles 

 S. Pope, Manchester; Executive Committee, the President and Sec- 

 retary, ex officio, and Samuel Rolfe of Portland, James A. Varney, 

 Vassalboro', and Albert Noyes, Bangor; Trustees, (one from each 

 county,) Rufus Prince, Turner, J. C. Madigan, Iloulton, S. F. Per- 

 ley, Naples, Hannibal Belcher, Farmington, J. B. Phillips, Dedham, 

 Joseph Taylor, Belgrade, Harvey Counce, Thomaston, John Cur- 

 rier, Waldoboro', William Swett, South Paris, Henry McLaughlin, 

 Bangor, Calvin Chamberlain, Foxcroft, Washington Gilbert, Bath, 

 Geo. 0. Weston, Madison, Hiram Chase, Belfast, J. C. Talbot, East 

 Machias, S. L. Goodale, Saco, 



The report of the committee was accepted by the convention ; 

 the effect of this acceptance being simply to designate certain per- 

 sons who might thereafter associate themselves together, and with 

 others proceed to organize the Society, under the sanction of the 

 Board of Agriculture. The organization was provisional, and in- 

 tended to extend no further than till such time as the society could 

 act for itself. 



Another committee was appointed to procure an Act of Incor- 

 poration for the Society, (^the Legislature being then in session), 

 who attended to that duty. [A copy of the Act is appended to 

 this Report.] 



The Permanent Organization. 



The corporators of the society met at Meonian Hall in Augusta 

 on the 27th day of March, 1873, accepted the Act of Incorporation, 

 adopted By-Laws embracing the form of organization proposed at 

 Winthrop, and elected the officers who had been there nominated. 



