40 BOAED OF AGKICULTURE. 



BOARD MEETING, FAIR GROUNDS, SEPTEMBER 21, 1901. 



The Indiana State Board of Agriculture met in the Directors' 

 room in the Administration Building on the Fair Grounds. 



All the officers and members of the Board were present. 



On motion of Mr. JSTiblack, the President was made chairman 

 of a committee to prosecute the claim for damages to the Fair 

 Grounds and buildings thereon bj reason of the occupation of the 

 same by the soldiers of the Spanish War, and the President was 

 authorized to name another member of said committee. 



On motion of Mr. -JSTiblack, seconded by Mr. Jones, the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the Board was authorized and instructed to 

 proceed at once to purchase the 134 acres of land now owned by 

 Mrs. Theresa H. Smith, and occupied by the Board under a lease 

 executed by Jay G. Voss, the former owner of said land, and said 

 committee is authorized to do all things necessary to effect said 

 purchase, execute notes, mortgages, borrow money, etc. 



The day's program was carried out as advertised. 



On motion of Mr. Stevens, all unfinished business was referred 

 to the Executive Committee. 



The following resolutions were introduced by Mr. Niblack, sec- 

 onded by Mr. Jones, and upon being put to a vote by the Presi- 

 dent, were unanimously adopted by the Board, viz. : 



Resolved, That the Indiana State Board of Agriculture does hereby 

 declare its intention to avail itself of the option or contract with Theresa 

 H. Smith to purchase and talie title to the real estate now occupied by 

 said Board under contract of leasing and sale entered into between the 

 Indiana State Board of Agriculture and Jay G. Voss, on the 12th day of 

 February, 1892, and which was extended January G, 1899, until the 1st 

 day of March, 1906, by said Theresa H. Smith, the present owner of said 

 real estate. A description of said real estate is as follows: 



Part of the southwest fractional quarter and part of the southeast 

 quarter, all in section 18, township 16 north, range 4 east, in said county 

 (Marion) and State (Indiana) described as follows: Beginning on the west 

 line of said section at a point 1,320 feet north of the southwest corner 



