156 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Following the meeting with the committee from the East Des 

 Moines Commercial League the committee addressed a^ communica- 

 tion to the Executive Council, and appeared in person before said 

 Council to present their views as to the very urgent necessity for 

 immediate action. 



To The Executive Council, State of Iowa. Gentlemen: Chapter 19, 

 Acts of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, gives to the Executive 

 Council authority to sell a certain portion of the land belonging to the 

 State known as the State Fair Grounds and with the proceeds derived 

 from such sale to purchase for the State of Iowa additional lands to be 

 used for State Fair purposes. 



In accordance with this act we herewith present for your considera- 

 tion a resolution passed by the State Board of Agriculture in session as- 

 sembled May 10, 1906, with an amendment presented and accepted at a 

 meeting of the Board held in the President's office at the State Fair 

 Grounds August 31, 1906, and most emphatically recommend that j'our 

 honorable body take such action as will secure for the State of Iowa as 

 an addition to the State Fair Grounds the land embraced in blocks and 

 lots set forth in the resolution. 



After carefully considering the proposition offered by Mr. Redhead 

 for an exchange of land, Mr. St. John offered the following motion: That 

 the State Board of Agriculture, through its executive committee, recom- 

 mend to the Executive Council of the State of Iowa an exchange of that 

 portion of the land belonging to the State and known as the State Fair 

 Grounds, lying east of the east line of section six (6) for the following 

 described lots in Redhead's Addition to Grant Park in the city of Des 

 Jloines, Iowa, viz: 



Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Block K. 



Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in Block G. 



Lots 1 to 42, inclusive, in Block L. 



Lots 1 to 14, inclusive, in Block J. 



Lots 1 to 14, inclusive, in Block I. 

 Motion was duly seconded by Mr. S. B. Packard, and, on roll-call, 

 members voted as follows: 



Yea: Morrow, Cameron, Simpson, Johnston, Brown, St. John, Legoe, 

 Ledgerwood, McDonald, Olson, Pike, Packard and Phillips — 13. 



Nay: None. 



Absent: Cummins, Koto, Wright, Storms, Curtiss and Ellyson — 6. 



Mr. Curtiss moved to amend the resolution of the Board passed at the 

 meeting held May 10, 1906, recommending the sale and purchase of land 

 as follows: 



'"That three additional members be appointed to act with the Execu- 

 tive Committee of the Board to secure an extension of the option of the 

 tract of land South of the Fair Grounds, and that the East Des Moines 

 Commercial League be notified, and that the transaction be postponed for 

 a period of ten days with a view to the money for the purchase of said 

 land being raised and donated by said Commercial League." 



