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Several gentlemen ex'claimed— " the more, the better." 



Mr. FooTE, of Ecrkshlre Co., Mass., asked whether all Societies, 

 in each State, or only the several State Societies, were to be repre- 

 sented 1 



The President said every Horticultural and Pomological Society 

 in each State. 



The third section was then adopted without amendment. 



The fourth and fifth sections were likewise acceded to without al- 

 teration. 



The sixth section was amended, on motion of Mr. HANcoac, by 

 making it the Treasurer's duty to render an account " at each meet- 

 ing" — and then adopted. 



The seventh section was adopted without change. 



The report in general was then accepted, and the By-Laws passed 

 with the amendments above staled. 



The Chair said that he ought before to have informed the Con- 

 gress that imnortant business had called the President, (Col. Wilder) 

 away from the city. He had been obliged to return to Massachusetts, 

 a step which he very much regretted, and which nothing could have 

 induced him to take, except circumstances beyond his control, and 

 duties of a peremptory nature. Col. Wilder had begged him (Mr. 

 Walker) to express to gentlemen of the Congress his regret at being 

 compelled to leave them, his grateful sense of the honor they had done 

 him, and the great pleasure it would have given him to remain during 

 the whole session. 



Mr. S. B. Parsoks thereupon moved that the thanks of the Con- 

 gress be presented to the Hon, Marshall P. Wilder, the President 

 of this body, for the very courteous, able, and impartial manner in 

 which he has presided at this session. 



This was voted unanimously. 



Mr. Downing stated that he had still before him the report of the 

 General Committee, comprising another portion of the list of fruits 

 proposed for rejection, and several other fruits which it was proposed 

 to recommend for general cultivation. 



On motion, it was voted to take up the lists and pursue the same 

 course in their consideration, that was adopted yesterday. 



