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Mr. L. R. Pike : That is satisfactory to me. 



The President: Are there any further remarks? If not, all 

 those in favor of the motion, signify by saying Aye — opposed the 

 same sign. It is unanimously carried. 



Mr. L. R. Pike : Our attention was called to another amend- 

 ment relative to the appropriation that supervisors of the county 

 make to county and district fairs. Now, the law requires that 

 the county or district fairs must own their own real estate before 

 the board can levy a tax upon all the property in the county and 

 pay them not exceeding $1,000 each year for the erection of 

 buildings, etc. The committee was asked to present in these 

 resolutions a resolution favoring the amendment of the law to 

 take out the requirement which provided that the fair association 

 should own the real estate; but the committee did not agree upon 

 the matter, and with that situation we decided to put it up to 

 the convention for discussion. 



Mr. W. P: Weary, Sac County : Do I understand from that 

 that they are limited to $1,000 a year, or $1,000 altogether? 



Mr. L. R. Pike, Harrison County : One thousand dollars alto- 

 gether. It appears that some of the fairs do not own their own 

 grounds, and therefore they are cut out by the board of super- 

 visors from getting this appropriation. According to the pro- 

 visions of the law, they must own their grounds to get that 

 amount. 



Mr. H. S. Stanberry, Black Hawk County: There is a little 

 misunderstanding regarding that proposition. Any county 

 board of supervisors can vote this $1,000 aid, whether you own 

 the grounds or not, but the suggestion as presented yesterday was 

 this: There are many fairs that would like to get $1,000 aid 

 every year. The law as it reads now provides that you cannot 

 get this aid each year unless the county owns their own grounds. 

 Is that plain? The county must own their own grounds in order 

 to get $1,000 every year. What we want to do is to strike out 

 that portion of the law in which it says the county must own their 

 own grounds in order to give the county fairs $1,000 annually — 

 not only for one year. 



The President : Is there any further action you want to take 

 on this matter? 



Mr. W. W. Morrow, Union County : Perhaps that should be 

 left with the Legislative Committee. 



