TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 369 



"Your committee to whom^was referred the matter of wages for the 

 help in the admissions and public safety departments find that last year 

 there were: 



28 Ticket sellers receiving $3.25 per day 



113 Foot policemen receiving 2.50 per day 



10 Gate captains receiving 3.50 per day 



67 Gatemen receiving 2.50 per day 



14 Mounted policemen receiving 3.50 per day 



1 Chief of police 55.00 for fair 



1 Assistant chief of police 40.00 for fair 



The committee does not feel that the employes are receiving enough 

 compensarion, but in view of the fact that the department is to be re- 

 vised and reorganized by a committee already appointed, we would recom- 

 mend that the pay be left as it is now for the ensuing year. 



It is our opinion and belief that in the reorganization the number of 

 police can be reduced, and would recommend that if same can be done that 

 the wages be raised up to the total amount paid the past year. 



R. S. Johnston 

 T. C. Legoe. 



Mr. Wentworth moved that the executive committee be authorized 

 and instructed to negotiate loans from time to time as may be 

 required, to an amount not exceeding $15,000.00. IMotion was duly 

 seconded by Mr. Ledgerwood and prevailed. 



Mr. Simpson presented the following resolution- relative to the 

 plan for a permanent arrangement of the state fair and exposition 



grounds : 



Whereas, It is unbusinesslike and inadvisable to further delay the 

 matter of adopting an adequate and permanent arrangement for the Iowa 

 State Fair and Exposition grounds, therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the executive committee is hereby authorized and di- 

 rected to have prepared plans for an adequate and permanent arrange- 

 ment of said grounds, and the said executive committee is hereby au- 

 thorized to employ a person or persons who shall have expert knowledge 

 of that subject and shall fix the compensation to be paid for the services 

 rendered. The said executive committee shall on or before the first day 

 of May, 1910, present to the members of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 in meeting, plans so prepared, together with any recommendations in 

 the premises as the said committee shall see fit to make in relation there- 

 to, and be it further 



Resolved, That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), or 

 so much thereof as may be necessary, be authorized for this purpose. 



Mr. Ledgerwood moved the adoption of the above resolution, 

 which motion was seconded by ]\Ir. Legoe and prevailed. 



Mr. Simpson presented and read the report of S. B. Packard, 

 superintendent of cattle for the past year. Report was ordered 

 read and placed on file. 



