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For tbo first one liundred gallons of spirits of turpentine, two hundi'cd 

 and fifty dollars. For the first one thousand gallons of spirits of turpen- 

 tine, five hundred dollars. 



For the first one hundred reams of printing paper, manufactured from 

 cotton, five hundred dollars. Manufactured from any other fibre or 

 material, the same premium; and for the first one thousand reams of 

 each manufactured, one thousand dollars. 



For the first book, of not less than three hundred pages, on the mining 

 and industrial resources of California, printed on California paper, stitched 

 with California thread, and bound in California skins and boards, five 

 hundred dollars. For the second, of the same character and description, 

 two hundred and fifty dollars. For the third, one hundred and fifty 

 dollars. 



For one thousand dozen of glass wine bottles, fifteen hundred dollars. 



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

 exported, and proved to withstand sea voj'ages and changes of climate, 

 fifteen hundred dollars. And foi* the fii'st, 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 fi.rst 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 

 Societ^^; 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 

 examine and judge of the products herein mentioned, and award the 

 premiums named to the parties entitled to them, according to the pro- 

 visions 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 exhib- 

 ited be good and merchantable, and the best of the kind so exhil)ited. 

 And no article produced or manufactured within any one year shall be 

 exhibited for premium herein oftered more than once, and such exhibi- 

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

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

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



