182 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The Secretary read a statement of the receipts of the fair up to 
the persent time. 
The following resolution was offered by ]\Ir. Curtiss and adopted : 
Resolved, That Alex Galbraith & Son of Janesville, Wisconsin, be fined 
one hundred dollars ($100.00) for failure to comply with the rule re- 
quiring that exhibition stock be on the grounds at nine o'clock Saturday 
'morning, August 22d. 
The motion was made and adopted that the Executive Committee 
be authorized to close the option which the Board had with con- 
tractor McGorrisk for the completion of the Administration Build- 
ing and to settle with him in full on completion of the work; also 
to close the option with A. H. Walker & Co. for additional plumb- 
ing. 
On motion the Executive Committee was intsructed to have plans 
and estimates made for tlie construction of a steel and concrete 
amphitheater and to have the same ready to present at the meeting 
the Board in December. 
On motion the Executive Committee was authoried to have plans 
made for future permanent arrangement of grounds and buildings. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 
Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 1908. 
Committee met with members Cameron and Simpson present. 
The question of closing the option given by Contractor McGorrisk 
for the completion of the Administration Building as per plans and 
specifications, also the option of A. H. Walker & Co., for the com- 
pletion of the plumbing, as authorized by the Board at a previous 
meeting, was taken up and the contractors notified to proceed with 
their work. 
Plans for an amphitheater were discussed at length but further 
action was postponed. The committee desired to gather further in- 
formation regarding the details in the construction of said stand. 
On motion the committee adjourned. 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 23-25, 1908. 
Committee met with all members present. 
Minor details in regard to closing accounts for the last fair and 
for further improvements at the grounds were discussed by the 
committee. 
A resolution was adopted authorizing the payment of one per cent 
