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Resolved, That there be no more frame buildingfs erected on the State fair 

 grounds (barns excepted), and in case of additional barns being built, that 

 they be located at least one hundred feet apart. 



Mr. Conrad explained to the board the diflBculties in securing 

 passes for assistants and judges for the fair of 1901, instructing 

 members to say to such of their temporary employes who use either 

 the Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, or Wabash railroads, to pur- 

 chase tickets to Springfield, taking a receipt therefor, and to include 

 the amount in the voucher for pay, attaching the receipt to the 

 voucher, the roads agreeing to rebate to the board all over one cent 

 per mile; at the close of the fair, 



Mr. Madden moved, in view of the statement made by the presi- 

 dent, that all employes of this board, on account of the fair, be in- 

 structed by the superintendents employing them to take receipts 

 from the railroad agents for tickets purchased to Springfield, and 

 that the secretary and auditor be and they are hereby authorized to 

 pay the amount of such receipts when attached to the vouchers pay- 

 ing such employes for their services during the fair, which motion 

 was adopted. 



Mr. Madden, from the special committee, to draft memorial reso- 

 lutions on the death of President McKinley, reported the following 

 resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by a rising vote: 



The hand of the assassin has again stricken our people. 



Whereas, The President of the United States has been assassinated by 

 the foul and deceptive hand of anarchy; and 



Whereas, President McKinley was universally beloved by the millions of 

 free people of our country, whom he loved and respected; and 



Whereas, President McKinley has, during his long and highly honorable 

 career, proven himself to be the true friend of all the American people, 

 especially the agricultural classes; now therefore be it 



Resolved, By the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Illinois, that by 

 the death of President McKinley this nation has lost its foremost citizen, 

 twice elected to the highest office within the gift ot an admiring people, the 

 agricultural interests of the country have lost a true and faithful friend, one 

 who, in all his relations to agriculture has shown a keen interest in behalf of 

 the millions who by their industry and toil have made this land of ours the 

 garden spot of the world. 



Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon our re»©rds and a copy, 

 properly engrossed, be sent to the Department of Agriculture of the United 

 States. 



George H. Madden, 

 J. A. Cunningham, 

 Jacob F. Rehm, 



D. W. VlTTUM, 



J. F. Prather, 



Comynittee. 



President Conrad announced the following committee to represent 

 the board at the annual meeting of the Association of Fairs and Ex- 

 positions, at Chicago, December 2 and 3: Messrs. Madden, Rehm, 

 Prather, Barber, David, Dickirson and the secretary. 



