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                                                                  Exhibit 10-b-1
                                      
                             NORDSON CORPORATION
                                      
                      RESOLUTION AMENDING 1979 EMPLOYEES
                   STOCK OPTION PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR OPTIONS
                         EXERCISABLE IN INSTALLMENTS
                                      
                                April 20, 1982
                                      


   RESOLVED, that Section 7(a) of the Company's 1979 Employees Stock Option
Plan (the "Option Plan") be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows:

   (a)  Each option shall become exercisable at such time or times, wholly
  or in such installments, as the Committee may determine at the time of grant.
  Any option that, at the time of grant, is exercisable in installments may be
  subsequently accelerated to the extent determined by the Committee, provided
  that no part of an option, as accelerated, shall become exercisable before
  the first installment of the option, prior to acceleration, would have become
  exercisable.