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price is to exceed sixty ($60.00) dollars per acre, except that when the 

 said Auditor Shaw and Treasurer Hoyt are unable to agree upon a price 

 within the amount fixed as a maximum price, the Governor is authorized 

 to appoint a committee of three members, one of whom shall reside in 

 Manchester, one in Strawberry Point, and one in Lament, and it shall be 

 the duty of the purchasing committee to get the approval in writing of 

 all members of the Valuation Committee in every purchase of real estate 

 in excess of said fixed maximum. All members of the Council voted 

 aye, and the resolution was declared adopted. 



Governor Harding announced the following standing com- 

 mittee, as a valuation Committee, in pursuance of the foregoing 

 resolution: Hon. George W. Dunham, Manchester; Hon. B. W. 

 Newberry, Strawberry Point ; W. A. Abbott, of Lament. 



Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 1, 1919. 



The Board of Conservation convened at the Grand hotel. Those 

 present, Messrs. Pammel, Ford, Kelso and Harlan. 



The matter of the inspection of the Lower Des Moines area 

 being before the Board, the separate reports of Dr. Pammel and 

 Mr. Harlan were read and that of Mr. Kelso orally made, all 

 were taken under consideration. 



It was moved by Mr. Ford that the area designated as The 

 Lower Des Moines area, namely from Belfast to Eldon, be recom- 

 mended for acquisition, the recommendation to be accompanied 

 with maps and descriptive details showing accurately the essen- 

 tials necessary, for the Executive Council to have before it in 

 order to exactly describe the lands proposed to be acquired and 

 that the character of the same for historic, scenic and scientific 

 value to the present and future public. Motion carried. 



Mr. Harlan submitted the following resolutions : 



Whereas, this Board seeks the ends aimed at by the Fish and Game 

 Department, by the Executive Council, and all concerned in the execution 

 of Chapter 236, Acts of the Thirty-seventh General Assembly, and 



Whereas, The authority and responsibility of the Board remains some- 

 what vague with respect to the best ways and means for assisting in 

 the execution of said statute, and 



Whereas, by statute it is within the power of the state to arrive at the 

 fair and accurate values of all lands it acquires for public purposes 

 through condemnation proceedings, wherein a jury of appraisement 

 shall be constituted so that no more than one member shall hail from a 

 county wherein lands to be condemned shall be situated, 



Resolved, that it is the sense of this Board that in the matter of 

 prices to be agreed to for lands to be acquired, the Executive Council 



