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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
relation thereto, and it was thereupon unanimously Resolved , 
That the Tenth and Eleventh Annual Exhibitions of the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Agricultural Society be held on the land occupied in 
1858 for a similar purpose, and that the Secretary be instruct¬ 
ed to secure the immediate execution of a lease of the same 
for a term of two years. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
June 8, 1860, 8 P. M. 
Pursuant to an authorized call by the Secretary, the Com¬ 
mittee of Preparation for the State Fair met in the Rooms of 
the Society, to determine the number, location, character of 
the buildings, enclosures, etc., necessary to the Tenth and 
Eleventh Exhibitions, and to provide for the letting of con¬ 
tracts for the construction of the same. President in the 
chair. Secretary reported a lease of the “ Bruen Estate,” 
comprising an area of 53 ^ acres; also a verbal lease to as 
much as the Society might wish to enclose, of the land adjoin¬ 
ing the said “ Bruen Estate*’ on the north-west. On motion, 
it was Resolved , That the grounds occupied by the Society in 
* 
1858, be enlarged by the enclosure of a strip on all sides so as 
to comprise in all some 40 acres, more or less. 
Resolved , That the Society purchase the necessary lumber, 
and that the President and Secretary be requested to canvass 
the markets of the State, and make the most advantageous 
contract for a maximum of 200,000 feet of good common pine 
lumber, and the requisite number of cedar posts. 
Committee adjourned to meet on Fair Grounds at 9 o’clock 
of the following morning, for the location of buildings &c. 
June 9th, 9 A. M. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment, and after, a careful 
survey of the grounds, determined upon the location of the 
buildings, gatea, &c., and then adjourned to the Rooms of the 
Society. 
