ANNUAL MEETING. 23 



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Mr. C. L. Hare addressed tlie Board on the subject of care and 

 management of the race track, as did also Dr. Tl. C. Light, C. L. 

 Channing, Col. Thomas, M. L. Hare. ' 



The following propositions were presented and read to the 

 Board: (Here insert.) 



On motion, the election of officers to be filled by the Board was 

 made a special order for 10 o'clock a. m. tomorrow. 



On motion, the Board took a recess until 2 o'clock p. m. 



JAMES E. McDonald, 



President. 

 CHARLES DOWNING, 



Secretary. 



Wednesday Afternoon, March 6, 1901. 



The Board reconvened and was called to order at 2 o'clock p. m., 

 by President McDonald. All members present except Mr. Llaines. 



On motion of Mr. Stevens, seconded by Mr. E. A. Robison, the 

 land tended in corn last year by Mr. Ealy, the piece of gTOund lying 

 immediately cast of the janitor's honse and the three-cornered tract 

 of land across the road east of the Fair Grounds enclosure was 

 rented to Mr. Thomas Ealy on the following terms: Ealy is to 

 furnish all tools, labor, seed, etc., and farm the ground in a good 

 husbandmanlike manner. Cut up all the corn, place same in shocks, 

 all at least one week before the Fair, and the Board is to iiave one- 

 half of the crop free of expense in the shock, and the Secretary was 

 ordered to draw up and enter into a contract with said Ealy in ac- 

 cordance with the order of the Board. 



On motion of Mr. Thompson, duly seconded, the Board voted to 

 visit the Fair Grounds on tomorrow (Thursday, March 7th), at 

 1:30 p.m. 



