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New-England Manufacturers' Association.

BOSTON, January 1, 1868.

DEAR SIR,

The stated Annual Meeting of the Association will be held at their rooms, No. 53 Washington Street, Boston, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at ten o'clock, A.M., for the choice of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before them.

In order that the new organization may be promptly effected, and allow sufficient time for the other purposes of the meeting, the Board of Government would urge prompt attendance at the hour named for assembling.

They invite special attention to the published proceedings of the last (July) meeting, for the purpose of a thorough discussion of the views there advanced by the several writers and speakers.

In addition to these topics, the Board have invited gentlemen to present papers upon the following subjects:

1st. The Principles which should govern the use of Drawing as a process in the manufacture of Cotton Yarns.

2d. Roving Frames.

The Board are gratified to state that the proposal to the Treasurers of the several manufacturing Companies, to unite with the Association, has been cordially received.

They take occasion to renew the invitation expressed in their Circular of August last, to the Treasurers and Managers of New-England Cotton Mills not yet represented, to become members by communicating with the Secretary, in season to take part in the coming meeting.

By order of the Board of Government,

AMBROSE EASTMAN, Secretary.

BOSTON, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1868.

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the third stated Annual Meeting of the Association was this day held at their rooms, No. 53 Washington Street, Boston.

About sixty members were present.

In the temporary absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary.

Mr. THOMAS J. BORDEN was chosen President pro tem.

The records of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, and approved.

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to nominate a Board of Government for the ensuing year; the committee to be raised by nomination.

Messrs. JOHN KILBURN, RICHARD B. BORDEN, ISAAC R. SCOTT, were constituted said committee.

Pending the report of the committee, the President and one of the Vice-Presidents appeared, and the President assumed the

Chair.

The committee returned, and reported in favor of a re-election of the present Board of Government.

Their report was accepted, and laid upon the table.

The reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor were then severally submitted, accepted, and ordered to be placed on file. The committee's report was then taken up, and, a ballot being had, the Board of Government for 1867 was unanimously reelected. Their names appear on page 3.

Voted, That in order to meet the expenses of the coming year, the Board of Government be, and they hereby are, authorized to lay such assessment upon the members of the Association as in their opinion is required; not exceeding in amount ten dollars, as limited by the By-laws.

Upon nomination by different members, the following gentlemen were then elected members of the Association :

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A letter was read from Daniel Williams, Esq., tendering his withdrawal from the Association, for the reason that he was no longer engaged in Cotton manufacture.

Voted, That the withdrawal be accepted.

Voted, That the Association regret the withdrawal of DANIEL WILLIAMS, Esq., from their membership; and that they respectfully invite him to be present and participate in the future meetings of the Association.

The regular business of the meeting being concluded, the Association took up the subjects proposed for discussion in the call for the meeting.

The first topic was the Paper presented by Mr. BURKE, at the last meeting, upon the Application of the Evener to the Lapper.

A letter was read from Mr. A. D. LOCKWOOD, of Lewiston, one of the Vice-Presidents, regretting his unavoidable absence, and communicating the result of certain experiments upon Laps with different machines. These appear in detail, in connection with the tabulated experiments at the close of this Report.

Mr. BURKE, of Lowell, said he did not come prepared to take any part in the discussion on the Lappers, but had been making quite a number of experiments. He found that weighing by the yard separately, as was done in the trials he had made since the last Semi-annual Meeting, makes a difference appear more unfavorable to the Picker than when the trials are made with longer

lengths. Some 875 trials that he had made on different machines of Lord's, he would read, although he should have thrown out one machine that is at work on waste, and runs quite irregularly, as he has had occasion to know since.

This list of experiments also appears at the close of this Report.

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Eleven trials on each of six Lappers, which were working from cotton, were then made, of six-yard Laps. The difference between the highest and lowest on the first Lapper was a little over § of an ounce ( of an ounce). The next Lapper varied; the next, ; and the next, Taking the six Lappers, the greatest difference was about of an ounce, and that was on the Lord machine; the Laps were made upon one Opener. On a Lapper, with one of Lord's old Regulators, about the same number of trials were made, and the difference there was 1 100 ounces, showing conclusively that the Lord Regulator, as now made, is an improvement, and makes the Laps more even and uniform than any in use that we have in our mills.

A member inquired,

Did I understand you that the greatest difference was on the Lord Opener?

Mr. BURKE replied,

Ou what we call the Lee Picker, the difference was 12 ounces; on the Walker & Hackling, the difference was 11 ounces.

A statement offered by Mr. HORROBIN, of certain experiments with the Lord Picker in England, was here read by the President, and appears with the other tables following this Report. Upon motion, it was here

Voted, That the statistics read in regard to the Laps, be published with the proceedings of the meeting.

A member asked,

On these trials with the Laps, Mr. President, I would inquire if the cotton was weighed on?

Answer. Where the Lord Evener was used, I understand it was not; in this case it was weighed as usual.

Mr. CUMNOCK, of the Quinebaug Co.'s Mills, read certain

statistics.

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