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officers of the society and Judge Guild, administrator of the 
said Bruen estate. 
2 d. That when the said purchase was made on the day afore¬ 
said, the said property became exempt from taxation under the 
4th subdivision of section 2 of chapter 130 of the general laws of 
1868; and, 
3d. That the tax levied upon the said property was levied in 
the year 1870, after it had become exempt under said provision ; 
and, 
Whereas, this society has by no act of whatsoever nature 
invalidated its claim to the privileges and immunities conferred 
by said law of the state; therefore, 
Resolved , That the president and secretary of this society are 
hereby instructed to lay the foregoing facts before the common 
council of the city of Madison, and to request that honorable 
body to take such action as will effectually and fully release the 
said property from all taxes heretofore levied, and from the con¬ 
sequences of the sale hereinbefore mentioned. Adopted. 
On motion, the board adjourned sine die. 
FEBRUARY MEETING, 1873 . 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, February 4, 1873. 
Pursuant to the requirement of section 3 of the by-laws, the ex¬ 
ecutive board of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society met in 
the rooms of the society in the Capitol, at 7 1*2 P. M., Tuesday, 
the 4th day of February, 1873. 
Present: Messrs. W. R. Taylor, President; B. R. Hinkley, ex- 
President; Rufus Cheney, C. H. Williams, J. L. Mitchell, LeviB. 
Vilas, Eli Stilson, Saterlee Clark, J. G. Thorp, J. H. Warren, C. 
L. Martin, 1ST. D. Fratt, J. 0. Eaton, J. T. Kingston, F. J. Blair, I. 
A. Lapham, T. C. Douseman and W. W. Field. 
President Taylor in the chair. 
Secretary Field moved that the first order of business be the 
reading of the “general regulations,” as published in the premium 
list of 1872, and that the same should be adopted for 1873, unless 
objected to. Carried. 
