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For ono thousand dozen of glass wine bottles, fifteen hundred dol- 

 lars. 



For the first one thousand cases of bottled beer, of two dozen each, 

 exported, and proved to withstand sea voyages and changes of climate, 

 fifteen hundred dollars. And for the first, second, and third succeeding 

 shipment, one thousand dollars, seven hundred dollars, and five hundred 

 dollars, respectively. 



For the first one hundred packages of linseed oil, of twenty gallons 

 each, one thousand dollars. 



For the first one hundred packages of cotton seed oil, of twenty gal- 

 lons each, one thousand dollars. 



For the first plantation of cotton, of not less than ten acres, in bear- 

 ing of good staple, one thousand dollars. For the first fifty acres of cot- 

 ton in bearing of good staple, two thousand dollars For the first one 

 hundred acres of cotton, in bearing of good staple, three thousand dol- 

 lars. For the first plantation of tree cotton, of not less than ten acres, 

 in bearing of good staple, three thousand dollars. 



For the first ten cases of indigo, of one hundred pounds each, one 

 thousand dollars. 



For the first one thousand pounds of rice, two hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars ; for the first five thousand pounds of rice, five hundred dollars; for 

 the first ten thousand pounds of rice, one thousand dollars; and for the 

 same quantity produced the first, second, and third succeeding years, 

 the same premium shall be paid. 



Sec. 2. The President of the State Agricultural Society; the Presi- 

 dent of the Agricultural, Horticultural, and Mechanical Society of the 

 Northern District; the President of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural 

 Society ; the President of the Mechanical Institute in San Francisco, and 

 the Governor of the State, who shall be President of the Board, shall 

 constitute a Board of Judges, a majority of whom shall constitute a 

 quorum for the transaction of all business, whose duty it shall be to ex- 

 amine and judge of the products herein mentioned, and award the pre- 

 miums named to the parties entitled to them, according to the provisions 

 of this Act. 



Sec. 3. No person exhibiting any article or articles named in this 

 Act shall be entitled to a premium therefor unless the articles so ex- 

 hibited be good and merchantable, and the best of the kind so exhib- 

 ited. And no article produced or manufactured within any one year shall 

 be exhibited for premium herein offered more than once, and such exhi- 

 bition shall be accompanied by a statement, in detail, of the culture or 

 manufacture, and cost, together with satisfactory proof that the article 

 or articles exhibited have not been before exhibited for any such pre- 

 mium, and that the same was produced or raised, and manufactured, 

 within the State of California. 



Sec 4. The Judges shall fix upon the time and place of such exhibi- 

 tion of articles for premiums, but samples of all articles exhibited, or 

 intended to bo exhibited, within any given year, shall be exhibited by 

 sample at the annual Fair of each of the societies named in this Act, 

 within such year, or within the next succeeding year, and may receive 

 such premiums from such societies as they may deem proper to offer, in 

 accordance with the rules of such society. 



Sec 5. Upon the award of a premium to any person, the Judges shall 

 certify the same to the Controller of State; and upon the presentation 

 of such certificate to the Controller, he shall draw his warrant for the 

 amount named therein, upon the State Treasurer, according to law. 



