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VOL. IV.] MARCH, 1881. [No. 3. 



OUR WINTER MEETING. 



The winter meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association was held 

 in the City Hall, Hamilton, commencing on Tuesday, January 19th, 

 1881, at ten o'clock a.m. 



President Dempsey occupied the chair, and after the reading of 

 the minutes by the Secretary, called for reports from the various 

 committees. 



P. E. Bucke, chairman of committee, submitted the following 



REPORT ON fences: 



Your committee on fences having examined into the subject, have 

 the honor to report : — 



1st. — That the existing laws regarding fences are unjust to land 

 owner and occupier, because if he has no need for a fence around his 

 farm, society should not compel him to build one. 



2nd. — That if a farmer chooses to soil his cattle he should not 

 be required to expend on fences a tax estimated at two dollars per 

 acre per annum to keep his neighbors' or highway cattle out of his 

 property. 



3rd. — That no law should compel a land occupier to make a road 

 or division fence to protect himself from the public at large ; that the 

 public are just as much interested in the welfare of tlie state as are 

 the individuals of the public. These last, therefore, should be pro- 

 tected by a public law compelling individuals to inclose their stock. 



4th. — That although the public have a right to travel on the roads 

 they have no right to use said roads for a cattle run or pasture ground. 



5th. — That every farmer or property owner, either by paying taxes 

 for road construction or repairs, or by the performance of statute labor, 

 has a certain vested right in the roads surrounding his lands, and m 



