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bounded by B and C and Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets, 

 from Peter Spencer and wife, for the sum of five hundred ($500) dol- 

 lars; also, Lots Numbered One, Two, and Eight, in the block bounded 

 by JD and E and Twenty-Second and. Twenty-third Streets, froniF. L. 

 George,' for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty ($1,150) 

 dollars; also, the north half of Lot Number One, in the block 

 bounded by C and D and Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets, 

 from Simon Ash, for the sum of two hundred and fifty ($250) dol- 

 lars; also. Lot Number Eight, in the block bounded by C and D and 

 Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets, from H. S. Beals, for the 

 sum of two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars; also. Lot Number Seven, 

 in the block bounded by D and E and Twenty-second and Twenty- 

 third Streets, from F. L. George, for the sum of three hundred and 

 fifty ($350) dollars. The total amount being $3,700. 



HISTORY OF THE EXPOSITION BUILDING. 



The State Agricultural Society have for several years past been 

 agitating the question of a new exposition building. The Society, 

 being under supervision of the State, the Board of Directors deemed 

 it proper to advise the construction of a Stat6 Agricultural and Indus- 

 trial Exposition Building upon the State Capitol grounds. A con- 

 ference was held with the Sacramento Board of Trade, and it was 

 agreed that the City of Sacramento should be asked to subscribe the 

 sum of $30,000, and the county the proceeds of sale of the old Pavilion, 

 to aid in the erection of this grand structure, provided the State 

 coi\ld be induced to appropriate a like amount. At the convening of 

 the Legislature, the Sacramento delegation, consisting of Senators 

 Cox and Routier, and Representatives La Rue, Doty, and Ryan, 

 agreed to the introduction of the following bill by Representative 

 Doty, and known as Bill No. 153; introduced January 13, 1883: 



An Act to authorize the erection of a State Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition 

 Building on the State Capitol grounds, and to appropriate money therefor. 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as folloios : 



Section 1. The State Capitol Commissioners shall, within ninety days after the passage of 

 this Act, select and set aside not less than four hundred feet square of land in the State Capitol 

 grounds, easterly from the State Capitol, for the jjurpose of erecting thereon a building to be 

 known and used as hereafter j^rovided. 



Sec. 2. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to erect on the land set aside as 

 provided for in section one, a building to be known as the State Agricultural and Industrial 

 Exhibition Building, to be used by them for State exhibitions of the industries and industrial 

 products of the State, and for the safe keeping and preservation of agricultural, mechanical, 

 mining, and other specimens, products, and models of the several branches of industry; provided, 

 that said building, when completed, shall not cost in its construction exceeding the sum of eighty 

 thousand dollars. 



Sec. 3. The general form and plan of said building shall be submitted to and approved by 

 the State Capitol Commissioners and the State Board of Agriculture, and be under iheir immediate 

 supervision and control. All claims, contracts, or expenses incurred in the erection of said 

 building shall be authenticated by the officers of said Boards before payment can be made 

 thereon or therefor. 



Skc. 4. The said building so erected shall be the projDerty of the State, but shall be subject 

 to the State Board of Agriculture for the purposes and uses specified in this Act, and in the "Act 

 to provide for the management and control of the State Agricultural Society by tlie State," 

 approved April fifceenih, eighteen hundred and eighty, and sucli further Acts as may be passed 

 by the Legislature controlling the uses for the benefit of industries mentioned in section two of 

 this Act. 



Skc. 5. The sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the 

 General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes mentioned in this Act; provided, 

 that no part of said forty thousand dollars hereby appropriated shall be drawn fiMm the State 

 Treasury until an axiditional sum of forty thousand dollars, to be also used in the erection of 



