Scope and Content: Various acts and resolves authorized payments by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture (also known as the Massachusetts Agricultural Society) and county agricultural societies. These include Resolves 1813, c 125 (1814) and Resolves 1816, c 141, authorizing payments to the society and to the Berkshire Agricultural Society for research, publication, and dispensing premiums relating to domestic animals, seeds, trees, fabrics, and useful inventions. Resolves 1829 c 82 (1830) and Resolves 1830, c 79 (1831) provided for annual payments to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society for the use of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. An official bounty program starting with St 1818, c 114 (renewed every five years by St 1823, c 22; St 1828, c 101; St 1834, c 178) authorized annual payments to agricultural societies raising at least
Notes:  Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 56, 84. Formerly called: Agricultural society accounts
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