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ties for electric lighting- and also for the payment of $3;". 000 in cash 

 to the society. 



The contract was read, and on motion was referred, together with the 

 abstracts and agreements to the business committee and Mr. Young 

 with instructions to examine and report. 



On motion, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Eich were added to the committee 

 to examine con.tract and agreements. 



The conmiittee were instructed to report today. 



■A recess was taken to 1 :30 p. m. 



One-thirty p. m., Executive committee met. Same members present. 



The committee to examine the contract, abstracts and agreements 

 reported as follows: 

 To the Executive Committee : 



Gentlemen : Your committee to whom was referred the contracts 

 and agreements submitted by the citizens' committee of Detroit for con- 

 veyance of the site for permanent location of the state fair, has ex- 

 amined the papers submitted, together with abstracts of title to lands, 

 and find them satisfactory and in accordance with the proposition sub- 

 mitted bv the Detroit Citizens' Committee, and bv resolution of this 

 committee at a meeting held September 27, 1904; and we recommend 

 that the contract be accepted for the conveyance of these lands as a 

 permanent location for the annual fairs of the Michigan State Agricul- 

 tural Society, and that this contract and the agreements for water 

 mains and electric light facilities be placed in the hands of the Sec- 

 retarv for safe keeping. 



Signed JOHN A. HOFFMAN, 

 I. H. BUTTERFIELD, 

 C. W. YOUNG, 

 JOHN T. RICH, 

 M. P. ANDERSON. 



Mr. Hoffman moved that the report be accepted and adopted, and that 

 the roll be called on the adoption of the report. The report was adopted, 

 on roll call of members, as follows : Y^eas — Messrs. Baldwin, Young, But- 

 terfield, Barnes, Custard, Ball, Boyden, Rice, Waldron, McKay, Hoffman, 

 Hardy, Maynard, Dewey, Hinds, Skeels, Collier, Hall, Marshall, Ander- 

 son, Rich — Y'eas 21. Nays, none. 



A motion by Mr. Hardy to refer the question of purchasing the Michi- 

 gan State Building at St. Louis to a committee composed of Mr. Hinds, 

 Mr. Y^'oung and Mr. Hoffman, and that the committee be authorized to 

 offer $1,250 for the building, if in their judgtuent, it is advisable to do 

 so, was adopted by the following vote: Yeas, 10; nays, 3. 



The committee to whom was referred the purchase of the Michigan 

 State Building reported as follows: 

 To the Executive Committee: 



Gentlemen — Y''our committee to whom was referred the matter of in- 

 vestigating the status of the Michigan State Building upon the World's 

 Fair grounds and the advisability of making a proposition to buy the 

 same, beg leave to report that they have had the matter under careful 

 consideration, having had a long conference with Mr. Smith, president 

 of the Michigan World's Fair Commission; have looked over the photo- 

 graphs of the building and its interior and gather this fact : If we 



