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Voted, That the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. Chittenden, 
whose generous offer must be declined on account of the resolution for a 
postponement of the exhibition just adopted. 
On motion of Mr. Williams, the committe adjourned sine die. 
B. K. BINKLEY, President 
E. B. Quiner, Secretary pro iem. 
MEMOEANDUM. 
State Agricultural Rooms. 
Madison, Sept. 6th, 1862. 
After an absence of just five months, during which time I have carefully 
studied the great exhibition at London—the grandest gathering hitherto 
witnessed of the products and people of all lands—and made a somewhat 
extended tour of observation, industrial and educational in its character, 
through France, Switzerland, Germany, Prussia, Belgium, England, Scot¬ 
land and Ireland, I have this day returned to find the dark cloud of war still 
resting upon my native land, and that the holding of an industrial ex¬ 
hibition in Wisconsin, this year, has been voted impracticable by the Exec¬ 
utive Committee of the State Agricultural Society. 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Dec. 10, 1862. 
Committee met as required by the By-Laws. 
Present—Messrs. Binkley, Atwood, D. Williams, Hall, Ferguson and Hoyt. 
President Hinkley in the chair. 
On call, the Secretary gave a brief account of what he had sought to ac¬ 
complish in Europe, and consented to comply with the Committee’s request 
for the preparation of a more detailed account of the International Exhibi¬ 
tion and of his travels in the ’7th Volume of Transactions. 
The Treasurer made his Report for the fiscal year ending with this date, 
[see page lO'Z] ; 
Which, after a careful examination by the committee was unanimously ap¬ 
proved. 
In response to inquiries concerning the disposition of the Fair Grounds, 
the President made the following statement of facts: 
“ It having become apparent that the war must be one of some years’ con¬ 
tinuance, so that it would be out of the question to hold annual exhibitions 
on the Society’s grounds until after the return of peace; and it being highly 
important, moreover, that the treasury of the Society be replenished from 
some source, it seemed to me best that an effort be made to induce the gen¬ 
eral government to purchase the improvements belonging to the Society, but 
really occupied by the Hnited States. 
