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Resolved, That the executive committee be and they are hereby author- 

 ized to purchase in the name of the State of Iowa as much additional 

 land, and in the order agreed upon by the board, to the southwest portion 

 of the grounds as may be possible from the state appropriation of $12,- 

 000.00, and be it further 



Resolved, That the committee be authorized to purchase this land 

 through an agent and to enter into condemnation proceedings if it be- 

 comes necessary. 



Resolved, That the appropriation as provided in House File 221 shall 

 be drawn upon orders signed by the president and secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture at such times and in such amounts as may be needed 

 in the payment of the work specified. 



On motion the resignation of Mr. Ledgerwood as vice president 

 was accepted by the board. 



The president announced that the next order of business would 

 be the election of a vice president to fill the vacancy made by the 

 resignation of Mr. Ledgerwood. On an informal ballot the fol- 

 lowing candidates for the office were named: Pike, Olson, John- 

 ston, Curtiss, Wentworth and Reeves. It was then agreed to take 

 a formal ballot and the low men to drop out until one of the 

 candidates was elected. Mr. Olson having received a majority 

 of all votes cast on the first ballot was declared elected vice pres- 

 ident to fill the vacancy. 



Mr. Olson presented his resignation as member of the State Board 

 of Agriculture from the tenth congressional district, which read 

 as follows: 



C. E. Cameron, President, April 4, 1911. 



Iowa Department of Agriculture, 

 Des Moines, Iowa. 

 Dear Sir: I hereby tender my resignation as member of the Iowa State 

 Board of Agriculture from the Tenth Congressional District. 



Respectfully yours, 



O. A. OLSON. 



On motion the resignation was accepted. 



The president announced that nominations were in order for a 

 member of the State Board of Agriculture from the tenth con- 

 gressional district to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 

 of Mr. Olson. Mr. J. P. Mullen of Pocahontas county and Mr. 

 C. J. Martin of Greene county were nominated, Mr. Mullen hav- 



