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hibitioo, and besides, he believed there had been an implied, if 
not an expressed understanding among members of the society, 
that the fair should be so located for 1873. While he did not 
object, but rather favored locating the fair at Milwaukee for 1873, 
he thought it eminently proper that it should be at the same time 
fixed for 1874 at Madison, as it had often been located for two 
years in succession, provided that the city of Madison would meet 
all the requirements of the board in fitting up the grounds and 
buildings of the society, as he doubted not they would. 
Dr. Martin and other members of the board stated that while it 
was true that the board had at different times located the fair for 
two years in succession, it had invariably been in consideration of 
a large expenditure of money by the city where it was located 
for the first exhibition, and that could not afford the expense 
without an assurance that it should be held for two or more years, 
but that in no instance had the committee located the fair for two 
or more years at different points, and that it would be establishing 
a bad precedent to do so in this case. 
The amendment was lost, and the motion of Dr. Martin agreed to. 
Adjourned until Thursday, at 9 A. M. 
Thursday, 9 A. M. 
Board met 
Quorum present 
President Taylor in the chair. 
Secretary Field moved that Mr. F. S. Lawrence, chairman of a 
committee appointed bp the State Horticultural Society to confer 
with this society relative to the joint exhibition of 1873, be then 
heard; which was agreed to. 
Mr. Lawrence stated that the amount heretofore appropriated 
to their society by the Agricultural Society, for premiums in the 
horticultural department, had been quite satisfactory, and that he 
was authorized to say that if the same amount was appropriated 
for 1873, it would be given in premiums, as formerly, and he 
thought would be entirely satisfactory to the society and to exhib¬ 
itors in horticultural hall. 
On motion, the sum of $800 was appropriated to the Horticul- 
