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STATE AGRICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
On motion, it was unanimously 
Resolved, 1. That the resolution of the Society, prohibiting the loan of 
its tents for any purpose whatever, be and the same is hereby amended, by 
adding the words: “ except in aid of benevolent or patriotic purposes.” 
Resolved, 2. That the request of the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Home Association is 
hereby granted, and that the Secretary is authorized to furnish the President 
of said Home with an order for the immediate delivery of the tents and to 
request the Mil. & P. du C. R. R. Co. to give them free transportation to and 
from Milwaukee. 
Committee then resumed the revision of the List of Premiums, and con¬ 
tinued in said work until 12 o’clock M. 
On motion, adjourned to 2 o’clock. 
2 o’clock, p. m. 
(iommittee met pursuant to adjournment, and proceeded to the appoint¬ 
ment of Judges and Superintendents of Departments; which, having been 
disposed of, it was 
Resolved, That the President and Secretary are hereby authorized to make 
such arrangements for the location of the Fair as shall seem to them expe¬ 
dient. 
On motion, adjourned sine die. 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
MEMORANDUM. 
Executive sessions were held every evening during the Fair; but, as the 
business related exclusively to the management of the Exhibition, it was not 
deemed important to make a record of the proceedings thereat for publica^ 
tion in the Transactions. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, Dec. 12, 1865. 
The Executive Committee met pursuant to requirement of By-Laws. 
Present—Messrs. David Williams, President, B. R. Hinkley, L. B. Vilas, 
J. 0. Eaton, David Atwood and J. W. Hoyt. 
President Williams in the chair. 
The principal business of the meeting being to settle with the Treasurer. 
On motion, the Fiscal Report was called up and compared with the ac¬ 
companying bills and vouchers. 
[For Report see page, 2S2.] 
Which Report, being found correct, was unanimously approved and ordered 
to be placed on file. 
The Secretary then offered ^he following resolutions, ivhich were cordially 
approved and unanimously adopted : 
Resolved, That the warmest thanks of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society are hereby tendered to Maj.^General W. T. Sherman, the pre-emi- 
