and interesting ad-
dress was made by Rev. Dr. "Wheeler, President of the University
of Vermont. Addresses have also been made at other fairs ; of
which we have not now sufficient information to give a correct state-
ment. The fair in 1849 was held in Shoreham. All the others have
been held in Middlebury. At the annual meeting in January 1852,
the constitution was so altered as to authorize the managers to fix
on a permanent location for the annual exhiljitions ; and they, at a
meeting in June of that year, fixed on Middlebury for that purpose,
provided the citizens should provide suitable grounds and fixtures,
and pay one hundred dollars annually toward the expenses. Since
that time the fairs have been held on grounds leased from Gen.
Nash, in the north part of the village, where temporaryBlaisdell, Jr. 1850.
1850 Joseph II. Barrett, 1857.
1857 Justus Cobb, still in office.
1857 William R. Sanford, still in office.
ADDISOX COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIl-TY.
The legislature, at their session in 1813, passed an act author-
izing several physicians in each county by name, to form themselves
into County Medical Societies, by the name of the Medical Society
of the County in which they should be formed. And the societies
were severally to be corporations with the usual powers, necessary
for the purposes, for which they were designed ; and were author-
ized to adopt and alter a corporate seal. They were to have power
to assess taxes on the members, " for the purpose of procuring a
library nnd suitable apparatus, nnd for other uses."' provided the
FROM
PRESIDENT.
TO
1844
Silas II. Jenison,
1848.
1848
Elias Bottum,
1850.
1850
Charles L. Smith,
1852.
1852
Harvey Munsill,
1754.
1854
Edwin Hammond,
1857.
116 HISTORY Oi' ALDlaON COUMTY.
tax shall not