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EXECUTIVE MEETINGS. 
(SUBSEQUENT TO THE FAIR.) 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison , Sept. 29, 1860. 
Pursuant to a special call, the Executive Committee met in 
the Agricultural Rooms, on Saturday, the 29th, 1860. 
Present, Messrs. Ilinkley, Robbins, Pinckney, D. Williams, 
C. II. Williams, Hall, Billings, Maxson, Edgerton, Atwood, 
and Hoyt. 
President Ilinkley in the chair. 
The settlement of claims against the Society, the determin¬ 
ation of unsettled questions connected with some of the awards 
of committees, and the care of the Grounds until the next suc¬ 
ceeding Fair engaged the attention of the Committee. 
J. Y. Robbins was appointed a committee of one to make 
all necessary arrangements for the safe and economical pro¬ 
tection of the property of the Society, until the Annual Exhi¬ 
bition of 1861. 
The Secretary offered the following resolutions : 
Resolved , That, the thanks of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society are 
hereby tendered to His Excellency, Alexander W. Randall, Governor of this 
State, for the excellent and eloquent Address delivered by him at the State 
Fair, September 28, 1860; and the Secretary is hereby instructed to solicit a 
copy of the same for publication in the Sixth Volume of the Transactions of 
the Society. 
Resolved , That the thanks of the Society are likewise due to Dr. John A. 
Kennicott, Dr. D. B. Reid, and Prof. E. S. Carr for the very interesting and 
