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the fair, for the members of one family, exclusive of sons over 21 years 

 of age. 



Single tickets good for one admission only. First and third day 

 tickets, 15 cents. Second day tickets, 25 cents. 



Ko variation from the above prices or exceptions will be made, ex- 

 cept in the cases of clergymen; but officer ~, judges and all others will 

 be required to purchase tickets before entering the grounds. Clergy- 

 men admitted free. 



The executive committee, in publishing the programme of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Society for 1856, and the condition of its financial 

 aflfairs, would most respectfully state to the farmers of Jackson county, 

 and all others who feel an in erest in the welfare of the society, that after 

 obtaining to the fullest possible extent the views and wishes of all con- 

 cerned, thoy have decided that for the purpose of relieving the society 

 from its indebtedness and placing it upon a firm and substantial basis, 

 it is necessary that the terras of membership and admission should be 

 the same as last year and as now advertised, modified so as to admit 

 all the members of one family, except sons over twenty-one years of 

 age, on the membership and family tickets. 



In this connection it is proper that the committee should briefly re- 

 view the past action of the society, and state its present condition. 



The society was organized and the first fair held in 1853, since 

 which time, in addition to the payment of all current expenses, pre- 

 miums, and expenses incident to holding the fairs, there have been 

 purchased thirteen acres of ground, lying on the west side of Grand 

 River and immediately joining the village of Jackson, at a cost of 

 fifteen hundred dollars, and on this land improvements have been 

 made in buildings, fences, &c., to the amount of $2,584 03, making a 

 !otal of $4,084 03, all of which has been paid except $850, of which 

 $600 is for payments not yet due. for the purchase of fair grounds, 

 and $250 borrowed for the purpose of paying premiums, &c. 



The improvements consist of an octagonal building 58 feet in 

 diameter, each side 22 feet in length, with posts 18 feet high, a double 

 or raised roof over the centre, with windows between — also, two wings, 

 each 50 feet in length by 22 in breadth, making in all a building 

 158 feet in length, well proportioned, of fine appearance, substantially 

 built and handsomely painted. Fronting one of the princip^il streets of 



