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with five to seven thousand dollars in the treasury before the fair gates 

 are open, due to the sale of season tickets. 



Member: I would like to ask one question, do you permit the 

 removal of these tickets from the books? 



Mr. Beaman: We take the tickets out as they come in. They 

 come to the gate and we see how many are in the car, and we tear 

 out the number necessary and pass them in. 



Member : What I was getting at, was this : If I bought one of 

 these season tickets ; could I tear out four tickets and hand them 

 to my friends and let them come in on them? 



Mr. Beaman : No, sir. When they come to the gate we tear out 

 the tickets and when they are all torn out of the book they are 

 through with it. 



Member: What percentage of total paid admissions at the gate 

 do you usually sell in season tickets? 



Mr. Beaman: About one-fifth. 



Mr. Harvey: I would like to inquire how long before the fair 

 opens you begin to sell tickets? 



Mr. Beaman: We sell them ten days before and don't allow them 

 to buy them after the fair is open. They will try it but you have 

 to use a rigid rule and say "no" then. 



President Estel: We will have the report of the Resolutions 

 Committee by Mr. Quarton, of Algona. 



REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE 

 We, the Iowa Fair Managers' Association, in convention assembled, de- 

 sire to express our appreciation for the cooperation and support given 

 this association by the officers and directors of the Iowa State Fair, and 

 conducting our affairs for the past season. 



And further be it resolved, That we recommend that a uniform classi- 

 fication be adopted for all Iowa fairs, with a minimum and maximum 

 premium, and in order to bring about this result we recommend that the 

 secretary of the Iowa Fair Managers' Association, cooperate with the 

 secretary of the Department of Agriculture of Iowa, by being instructed 

 to prepare such classification and mail the same to each member of thia 

 organization. 



And whereas, There has been some misunderstanding in reference to 

 the enforcement of a certain rule as contained in our premium books, 

 as it refers to exhibitors who show in classes where there is no competi- 

 tion which reads as follows: Where there is but a single exhibitor in a 

 class the judge shall award but one premium, where two, two premiums 

 may be awarded, and where three or more as many premiums may be 

 awarded as there are exhibitors in the class, except as otherwise pro- 

 vided in social rules under head of department. 



