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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
number of life members, made it inevitble that the grounds 
should be greatly encun:ibered with their carriages and 
wagons, if free admission were allowed; since, a large pro¬ 
portion of members to be benefited by such free admission are 
residents of the county where the fair is held, and whose extra 
convenience wouid thus be secured at the sacrifice of the com¬ 
fort and convenience of outside members, not so circumstanced 
as to avail themselves of the privilege in question; and since, 
moreover, the premium list of the society demanded the large- 
est possible receipts consistent with strict justice to all parties 
concerned, there was ample warrant for the rule under consi¬ 
deration. 
The other members of the board concurring, the said regu¬ 
lation was adhered to. 
After the arrangement of various details connected with the 
fair, the board adjourned to meet the following evening, and on 
each successive evening during the progress of the exhibition. 
Which meetings were held accordingly. 
' State Agricultural Eooms, 
Madison, October 5, 1869. 
The executive board of the society met pursuant to call of 
the president, for the auditing of accounts and the payment of 
claims growing out of the exhibition. 
. Present—Messrs. B. E. Hinkley, President, W. E. Taylor, 
David Atwood and J. W. Hoyt. 
President Hinkley in the chair. 
The board continued in session two days, in discharge of the 
duties named in the call, and adjourned sine die. 
State Agricultural Eooms, 
November 80, 1869. 
The executive board met, pursuant to requirement of the 
by-laws, on the 30th of November—being the day previous to 
