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but no more than twenty per cent, to be included in any one 
call. 
At a meeting of the Directors, held at the same place on the 
25th of July, the President reported that he had obtained, in 
Milwaukee, subscriptions to the capital stock to the amount of 
$16,350, (being 654 shares,) in sums varying from $50 to $1,000. 
A Constitution, Ry-laws, and programme of operations were 
considered and adopted. 
CONSTITUTION. 
I. The Directors of this Association shall be elected by ballot, and the 
thirteen stockholders who receive the greatest number of votes cast, shall be 
considered duly elected, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until 
their successors are elected; each stockholder to have one vote for every 
share of stock held by him, which can be voted in person only. 
II. The election of Directors by the stockholders shall be held in the City 
of Milwaukee, under the supervision of the Executive Committee, on Thurs¬ 
day of the week cf the annual fair, at the office of said committee, between 
the hours of two and five o’clock in the afternoon; but the term of office of 
the Directors so elected shall not begin until the first day of the next January. 
III. The Directors shall, as soon after the first day of January as conve¬ 
nient, elect a President, seven Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and 
such other officers as they may think necessary, and prescribe their duties; 
the Pi*esident and two of the Vice Presidents to be selected from the Direc¬ 
tory. 
IV. Stockholders shall be exempt from annual contributions, and shall 
have free access to the Fair Grounds, and' the right to compete at all fairs 
and exhibitions of the Association with any stock or articles of which they 
may be the real owners. 
V. Propositions to amend this constitution shall be submitted in writing 
at a meeting of the Directors, and if two-tliirds of the members present at 
the next meeting vote for the same they shall be adopted; provided that no¬ 
tice of such proposed amendments be sent to each member of the Board prior 
to the time when the same are to be considered. 
Messrs. E. R. Wolcott, President , Harrison Ludington, S. B. 
Davis, J. L. Burnham, T. C. Dousman, and F. D. McCarty, 
were appointed the Executive Committee. 
A very favorable arrangement having been made for the use 
of sixty acres of land, with a suitable surface, already orna¬ 
mented with native forest trees, and provided with a track one 
mile long, the Executive Committee were authorized to make 
the necessary arrangements for an Exhibition of Horses, as soon 
as it could be done. 
Pursuant to this authority the Committee arranged for an 
Exhibition Qf Horses, to be held on Tuesday, October 2d, 1860, 
and the three succeeding days; premiums were offered amount¬ 
ing in the aggregate to over three thousand dollars. 
