FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 125 



Light: The light to be admitted from the side walls, at a point above 

 sixteen feet, and the balance if needed, through roof. 



Floor: Aisles to be of cement, balance of paving brick. 



As the committee must take into consideration the cost of the building in 

 their selection of plans, architects are requesed in submitting their plans to 

 also present estimate of the cost of the building, and a guarantee from a 

 reputable contractor that the cost will not exceed the architect's estimate. 



The State Board of Agriculture will pay $40 each for such sketches made 

 b)' such architects as are invited to present them. 



The sketches are to become the property of -the board, with the under- 

 standing that should the necessary appropriation for the building be made 

 at the present session of the legislature, that the architect of the sketch 

 adopted by the committee shall be invited to make complete plans and speci- 

 fications of same, at a price to be hereafter agreed upon, and the $40 due 

 the successful architect for his sketch, as above provided, shall be considered 

 as payment on account for the complete plans and specifications as prepared 

 by him. The other sketches than those adopted will be framed and hung in 

 the Exposition Building, and the business card of the architects may be dis- 

 played therewith. Sketches may be in pen and ink or in colors. 



The executive committee of the State Board of Agriculture will meet in 

 Des Moines, January 26, 1904, and all proposed sketches must be in the 

 hands of the secretary by eleven o'clock on that date. 



The above letter was written and sent to the following named 

 architects on December 23, 1903: 



Libbie, Nourse & Rasmussen, Des Moines. 



Josselyn & Taylor, Cedar Rapids. 



Hallett & Rawson, Des Moines. 



Smith & Gage, Des Moines. 



Reeves & Bailie, Peoria, 111. 



Proudfoot & Bird, Des Moines. 



Cox & Schoentgen, Council Bluffs. 



The secretary presented communication from Mr. J. H. 

 Jackson of Centerville, Iowa, asking the return of one half of 

 entry fee ($25) which had been collected in full ($50) by the 

 American Trotting Association, and was now in the treasury of 

 the department. After the secretary had stated the details 

 leading up to the presentation of said claim it was moved by 

 Mr. Cameron, and seconded by Mr. Simpson, that the secretary 

 be instructed to issue warrant for $25 in favor of Mr. Jackson. 

 All voted in the affirmative. 



The secretary was instructed to purchase the necessary for- 

 age for the feed barn, for the fair of 1904. 



On motion the secretary was instructed to issue warrants in 

 payment of per diem and mileage as follows : 



To W. W. Morrow, 2 days and mileage $16.20 



To C. E. Cameron, 3 days and mileage 26.00 



