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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION

OF USEFUL ARTS, FOR THE YEAR 1807.
ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, President.
EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU, First Vice-President.
SIMEON DE WITT, Second Vice-President.
JOHN TAYLER,

STEPHEN VAN RENSSELEAR,
DE WITT CLINTON,

PETER GANSEVOORT, JUN.

GERRIT W. VAN SCHAICK,
JOHN WOODWORTH,
ISAAC HUTTON,

Counsellors.

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CHARLES D. COOPER, Treasurer.

MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION

OF USEFUL ARTS.

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John Tayler,

John Lansing, Jun.
De Witt Clinton,
Charles D. Cooper,
Stephen Lush,
James G. Graham,
John H. Wendell,
Abraham Adriance,
Joseph Annin,
Benjamin De Witt,
Peter De Labigare,
Stephen Van Rensselaer,
Morgan Lewis,
Peter Gansevoort, Jun.
Frederick De Zeng,

Samuel L. Mitchill,

Douw Fonda,

Samuel Russell,

John Woodworth,
Gerrit W. Van Schaick,
Elkanah Watson,
David Hosack,
Alexander Miller,
John B. Romeyn,
James Geddes,
Peter Smith,
Salmon Buell,
John Ballard,
John Stevens,

William P. Van Ness,
John Tryon,
Joseph C. Yates,
Francis Bloodgood,
Jacob Brown.

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THE

HE Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Arts and Manufactures having expired by the limitation contained in the act of incorporation, another act of the legislature has been obtained, reviving its corporate powers under its present name, and a modification in some respects altered. It was found by experience that much of the business of the society could not be so well conducted at meetings of its members generally, as by a few selected for the purpose of devoting their special attention to those objects that required a considerable share of deliberation. The new act therefore provides for the appointment of a council, whose duties are particularly defined by a by-law, and embrace all such matters as were judged to merit more than ordinary investigation or care in their adjustment. Some other alterations were made, but this is the most important, and that from which the most beneficial effects are anticipated, as it will always secure a select number of the most efficient members to watch over the concerns of the society, and infuse a spirit into its proceedings.

THE present publication comprehends discrimi nately the transactions of the society, both before and after its re-incorporation, a circumstance which it was not thought necessary to notice in the title

page. On' perusal it will be seen that very little borrowed matter has been admitted; such it was considered would too much exclude what was original and esteemed of sufficient merit to be presented to the public. It will not be amiss in this place to observe, that communications of any useful discoveries will always be thankfully received ; and gentlemen, whether belonging to the society or not, who are disposed to make experiments in agriculture, or who may be so fortunate as to become acquainted with any thing original that may promise to be productive of a public benefit, are invited to impart them to the society.

FOR the patronage of the state the gratitude of the public is due, but it is regretted that this påtronage has not been extended so far as to confer the ability of accomplishing designs which aim at more extensive usefulness than has yet been attained: Still it is hoped, that, ernulating those wise governments which have considered it the best policy to assist, with adequate means, the efforts of its individual or associated subjects, engaged in plans for promoting the public good, our legislature will not deem it impolitic profligacy to permit a trifle of its vast revenue to be employed for purposes acknowledged to be essential to the prosperity of a nation. It has long been contemplated to attach to the society so much soil as would suffice for agricultural experiments. The uses of such an acquisition need not to be detailed, they will spontané

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