PROCEEDINGS. 
EXECUTIVE MEETINGS. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, Eeb. 1, 1870. 
The executive board of the Wisconsin State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety met pursuant to requirement of the by-laws, in their 
rooms on the evening of February 1, 1870, at 7 1-2 o’clock. 
Present—Messrs. B R. Hinkley (president), Eli Stilson, Ru¬ 
fus Cheney, Nelson Dewey, W. W. Field, J. G. Thorp, N. S. 
Greene, Saterlee Clark and J. W. Hoyt; Messrs. Atwood, Tay¬ 
lor and Vilas being absent from the state. 
President Hinckley in the chair. 
The president made some remarks appropriate to. the occa¬ 
sion ; dwelling in particular upon the necessity for judicious 
management of the financial affairs of the society during the 
coming year, the importance of the revision of the prize list 
for the next exhibition, and the occasion that would probably 
arise for the consideration of two or more propositions for the 
re-location of the fair. 
Mr. Field moved that the revision of the regulations and 
list of nremiums for the exhibition of 1870 be taken as the 
a 
first order of business. Carried. 
Voted, on motion of Mr. Field, that the regulations hereto¬ 
fore in force, and published for the management of the exhi¬ 
bition of 1869, be adopted as far as to “ rules of entry.” 
Carried. 
Mr. Hoyt renewed his annual motion for the opening of the 
exhibition “ to the world ” and all its inhabitants; which mo- 
