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Secretary read communications from President Darling and Vice President 
Stilson explaining their absence from the meeting. 
Revision of Premium List resumed. 
Mr. Meacham, of Beloit, waited upon the Committee, asking permission to 
exhibit a new process for the refining of sorghum syrup and sugar, and, on 
motion, was invited to proceed with his experiments in the presence of the 
Committee. 
At this stage of proceedings, a committee of the Dane County Stock and 
Agricultural Association, consisting of Judge L. B. Yilas, President, 0. S. 
Willey, E. B. Cra^rford and Sam. Klauber, Directors, waited upon the Board 
with a proposition in relation to the location of the next State Fair. 
Voted that the said committee be heard at on<;e. 
Whereupon, Judge Yilas proceeded to state that it was the wish of the said 
Association that the Fair be located at Madison for the \ears 1868 and 1869, 
and that to this end they were willing to make the required improvements 
within any reasonable limit. 
On motion, the proposition tendered was received and laid upon the table 
for action at a more convenient time. 
Revision of Regulations and Premium List resumed and continued until 
6 o’clock p. M. 
At 6 o’clock President Keyes A. Darling arrived and took the chair. 
At 6 o’clock Committee adjourned to meet at 9 o’clock a. m. of the 6th inst. 
February 6, 9 o’clock, a. m. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. 
Present, same members as before. 
President Darling in the chair. 
On motion of Mr. Field, voted, that the Annual Exhibition of this Society 
for the years 1868 and 1869, be and they are hereby located at Madison: 
provided the Dane Co., Stock and Agricultural Association will comply with 
such terms as shall be approved by this Board. 
Moved by Mr Field that the President and Secretary be instructed to pre¬ 
pare written conditions, compliance with which, on the part of the Dane 
Co., Stock and Agricultural Association shall secure to Madison the location 
of the State Fair for the years 1868 and 1869. 
Mr. Eaton moved to amend by adding to said committee Messrs. Hinkley, 
Taylor and C. H. Williams, and that the committee thus constituted be au¬ 
thorized and instructed not only to prepare conditions, as provided in the 
motion pending, but also to settle the whole question of location. Carried. 
The motion so amended was then carried unanimously. 
After some deliberation, the committee on location, preferring to submit 
the conditions agreed upon by them to the Board, while in session, for its 
approval or amendment, presented the said conditions embodied in the fol¬ 
lowing resolution, to wit: 
