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STATE AGKICULTUEAL SOCIETY 
Resolved^ That the Annual Exhibitions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society, for the years 1868 and 1869, shall be located on the grounds of the 
Dane County Stock and Agricultural Association at Madison; provided^ the 
said Association will furnish satisfactory guarantees for the fulfilment of the 
following conditions, to-wit: 
1. The payment, within thirty days from this date, February 6th, of the 
amount due from said Association to this Society. 
2. The construction of a suitable building for the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment, of dimensions not less that 34x60 feet; a building for the Department 
of Manufactures, not less than 40x80 feet; at least 50 additional box stalls 
and the required stalls and pens for cattle, sheep and swine; a floor in the 
Hall of Fine Arts; wells in sufficient number and in perfect working order. 
3. The proper seeding of the grounds to grass. 
4. The making of such additional improvements as the Committee of this 
Society shall deem necessary to the successful holding of the said Exhibition, 
and the completion of such improvements to the satisfaction of said Com¬ 
mittee at least 20 days before the date of the opening of the Exhibition, and 
the delivery of the grounds to said Committee ten days before said date of 
opening. 
6.' The repair and complete improvement of the said grounds to the 
entire satisfaction of the Committee of this Society for the Exhibition of 
1869 and the completion and delivery thereof on the terms above recited. 
6. The free use of the Grand Stand, except during the trials of speed 
and the Exquestrian Displays of both exhibitions. 
Y. A satisfactory guaranty that the hotels and boarding houses of Madison 
shall not charge more than their usual rates. 
8. The limitation by a city ordinance of hack and omnibus fares to 25 
cents for a single trip between the city and fair grounds, as also between the 
hotels and the railroad depot. 
9. The delivery to the Secretary of this Society, of the guarantees above 
required within 30 days from this date. 
Which resolution, on motion, was unanimously adopted. 
The Secretary presented conditions on which, in his judgment, the Society 
should receive the application of the State Horticultural Society for a joint 
Exhibition in 1868 ; the said conditions being in substance as follows: 
The State Agricultural to give to State Horticultural Society the arranging 
of the premium list in the Horticultural Department: provided that the ag¬ 
gregate of premiums in said department shall not be materially less than in 
1867; also the appointment of a Superintendent and an assistant, and the 
necessary Judges for said department, and to set apart for the said Horticul¬ 
tural premiums the sum of $600, payable after the Fair, on the order of the 
officers of the Horticultural Society. Preparations for the exhibition in the 
Horticultural Department, within reasonable limits, to be made by the Agri¬ 
cultural Society in like manner as heretofore, and the list of premiums in 
Horticultural Department to be published, as heretofore, in the list of the 
Agricultural Society, of which it is an essential part. 
On motion, the said conditions were approved, and the Secretary was 
instructed to present them in person to the State Horticultural Society, then 
in session in the Capitol. 
In response to this proposition of the Executive Committee, the foilwing 
communication was promptly received : 
Resolved^ That the thanks of^,this Society be, and theyare hereby, tendered 
to the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society for the very 
cordial manner and liberal spirit manifested by them in accepting our pro¬ 
position for a union of the two societies, for the fall Exhibition ; also, that 
the members of said Committee are hereby invited to'atteud our meeting and 
examine the fruits now on the table, for exhibition, at their pleasure. 
