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members, and the Executive Committee determined for the 

 purpose of raising the necessary funds to pay the premiums, 

 and defray the expenses incident to holding the fair, to en- 

 close the fair grounds with a close fence, and charge a fee for 

 the admission of persons within the enclosure. The admit- 

 tance fee was fixed at 15 cents for a single individual — 25 

 cents for a man and his family, (including all children under 

 18 years of age,) for one day. One dollar for the three days, 

 admitting the family (with the above restrictions,) and which 

 also permitted the person to enter whatever he deemed 

 proper for exhibition and competition. About three hundred 

 tickets were sold for one dollar, constituting such person a 

 member. Their names were recorded, and are regarded as 

 members of the society ; but at the next fair will not be en- 

 titled to the rights of members unless they purchase a ticket. 

 Until that time however, they are entitled to vote in all 

 meetings of the society. 



Two acres of ground was enclosed, with a board fence, 

 seven feet high ; in the construction of which, two pieces 

 of studding, nine feet long, were inserted in the ground, 

 leaving a space between them equal to the thickness of the 

 boards used. These double posts were set at a distance from 

 each other, half the length of the boards, and were fastened 

 at the top by being wrapped with wire to prevent their sepa- 

 rating. The boards were placed edgewise on the top of each 

 other, breaking the joints alternately at each double post. 

 The boards of course were precisely the same length, when 

 used together. No nails were used whatever, and the boards 

 was in nowise injured by the use made of them. We paid 

 eighty dollars to the keeper of a lumber yard to put up the 

 fence, for the use of his lumber, and the taking of the same 

 away, leaving the ground precisely as he found it. Lumber 

 for such an enclosure might be purchased, and used in this 

 way and sold again for but a small discount on its original 

 cost. Sheds were also erected for the exhibition of smaller 

 articles — pews and stalls for small stock, and racks for horses 



