558 MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Resolved further, That a committee of five, consisting of Messrs. Turner, Chamber- 

 lain, Ball, Wells and Watkins, be and is hereby appointed to formulate and urge such 

 legislation, and that the secretary be and is hereby directed to arrange for the circula- 

 tion and signing of proper petitions, by obtaining the aid of the officers of each agri- 

 cultural society in the State and otherwise. 



Ad ourned sine die. 



A. 0. HYDE, 

 J. 0. Sterling, President. 



Secretary. 



MEETING OF LOCATING COMMITTEE. 



Detroit, April 3, 1889. 



la pursuance of a resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, 



President Palmer, Treasurer Dean, Messrs. Wells, Sharp and Butterfield 

 (Business Committee), Turner and Fifield, of the Transportation Com- 

 mittee, and the Secretary, met in the parlors of the Wayne at 2 o'clock p. m. 



President Palmer in the chair. 



Messrs. Ball, Phillips and Lessiter, members of the Executive Committee, 

 were also present. 



Mr. J. E. Warner, President of the Central Michigan Agricultural 

 Society, invited the State Society to locate the Fair permanently on the 

 grounds of the Central Society, and offered to present the fair grounds and 

 buildings of the Central Society to the State Society. Mayor Turner, J. J. 

 Baird, Secretary of the Central Society, and several citizens of Lansing 

 present urged that the Fair be located permanently at the Capital City. 



Mr. Turner moved that the Executive Committee be called together at 

 the Wayne on Wednesday, April 24, to consider the question of permanent 

 location. 



Mr. Sharp stated that the Executive Committee had power to locate per- 

 manently at a regular annual meeting only. 



Mr. Turner then withdrew his motion. 



President Palmer appointed the following named gentlemen a Committee 

 on Permanent Location (the President a member by resolution of the Execu- 

 tive Committee) : Messrs. A. J. Dean, A. 0. Hyde, J. C. Sharp, Wm. Ball, 

 I. H. Butterfield, W. L. Webber and Eugene Fifield. 



Upon motion of Mr. Butterfield Messrs. Ball and Turner were appointed 

 a committee to secure legislation necessary to enable the Executive Com- 

 mittee to locate the Fair permanently at any special meeting of that 

 committee. 



It was agreed to call a meeting of the Executive Committee at the Hib- 

 bard House, Jackson, on Wednesday, April 24th next, provided that the 

 committee on legislation secure the passage of a bill giving the comm tte 

 power to locate permanently at that time. 



