PROCEEDINGS—EXECUTIVE MEETINGS. 
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State Agricultural Eooms, 
Madison, Sept. 27, 1869. . 
The executive board met pursuant to requirement of the 
by-laws. 
Present—Messrs. Hinkley, Taylor, Cheney, Field, Atwood, 
Stilson, Green and Hoyt. Notice was received from the 
other members of the committee, explaining their absence and 
declaring their purpose to arrive the following day. 
President Hinkley in the chair. 
The secretary made an encouraging statement of the condi¬ 
tion of affairs relating to the exhibition, and presented various 
questions of detail touching the management of the several 
departments. 
Members of the society not of the board presented 
themselves at the meeting and communicated the fact, that 
there was much clamor against the new rule requiring life 
members to purchase carriage tickets, a thing they had not 
been in the habit of doing. 
The president and secretary explained that a life member¬ 
ship properly covered the privilege of free exhibition, of ad¬ 
mission of the holder and family to the exhibition, the voting 
for officers, and upon all questions raised at the annual meet¬ 
ings of the society, together with a copy of the society’s trans¬ 
actions—when the same could be furnished—nothing more. 
That the question of details concerning admission, what consti¬ 
tuted a man’s family^ etc., were determinal by the board on 
the basis of common sense and justice to all parties con¬ 
cerned. Acting on this principal as the constitutional guardi¬ 
ans of the interests of the society and its members, the board 
had resolved that a member’s family should be construed to in¬ 
clude his wife and children under age ; and that inasmuch as 
free admission of life members’ carriages had been considered 
by the board in the light of a special favor, to be continued 
only so long as the society should not be seriously inconveni¬ 
enced by it; since the time had now come when the large 
