118 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
independent of the amount of $2,529 advanced by him on the 
purchase of the fair grounds—which amount he had already 
been ordered repaid—was $775.58, including balance due on 
the loan of $1,000, made by him November 4, 1869, the inter¬ 
est thereon, the interest on his regular salary, for which he had 
been obliged to wait at considerable inconvenience and pecuni¬ 
ary loss, balance due on salary up to January 1, 1871, and the 
sum of $69 paid out as traveling and incidental expenses in 
attending to the interests of the society during the year. 
On motion, the report of the committee was approved, and 
the secretary authorized to draw on the treasurer for the full 
amount of said indebtedness. 
The secretary called the attention of the board to the fact 
that since the date of their last meeting, there had been organ¬ 
ized and chartered a state institution .known as the “ Wisconsin 
Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,” whose character and 
aims were such as to entitle it to the formal recognition of the 
State Agricultural Society. He therefore submitted for the 
consideration of the board a series of resolutions to that end, 
which, if unanimously approved by the members thereof, he 
desired to offer for the society’s adoption at the annual meet¬ 
ing, soon to be convened. 
Which resolutions, after some enquiries and explanations, 
were generally concurred in. 
[See resolutions under the head of annual meeting of the 
society.] 
After the presentation and auditing of bills for the expenses 
of members in attending the meeting, the board adjourned 
sine die. 
