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BY-LAWS. 



1. The Board of Directors shall provide suitable accommodations 

 for the annual exhibitions, and it shall be their duty annually to ap- 

 point a Marshal, whose duty it shall be to cause to be provided suitable 

 pens for the reception of stock oftered for premiums— he shall take 

 charge of such pens, and assign each animal and each product to its 

 proper place on days of exhibition — he shall keep a list of such ani- 

 mals, with such other information in relation to each as may be com- 

 mimicated to him by the Secretary, for the inspection of the Viewing 

 Committees. He may appoint necessary assistants, with the same du- 

 ties, subject to himself. 



2. They shall appoint Judges who shall examine the property and 

 specimens produced by the persons applying for premiums, at the an- 

 nual Fairs, and shall determine whether any or either of the applicants 

 be entitled to a premium according to the conditions prescribed ; and 

 they may also appoint Judges to visit and examine such farms as may 

 be entered for premiums, at such times and under such regulations as 

 shall be prescribed by the Board. 



3. No article shall be entitled to a premium, but such as actually be- 

 long to, and are bona fide, the property of competitors, or such as they 

 have had possession of, and been by them kept within the county for 

 three months next preceding the exhibition. Applicants for premiums 

 shall give in written statements relative to the article exhibited, and 

 shall be prepared to procure satisfactory evidence to sustain them. 



4. No member of any Viewing Committee shall, prior to their 

 award, ask or receive from any person on the day of the Fair, informa- 

 tion touching animals or products, except from the Marshal or his as- 

 sistants — nor shall the Marshal or his assistants, prior to such award, 

 communicate to the committee in any case, the names of the owners of 

 such animals or products. 



5. The Viewing Committee shall be attended to the pens by the 

 Mai'shal and his assistants — and any owner of stock or member of the 

 Society, who shall in any way attempt to influence the decisions of the 

 committees, shall forfeit all claims to a premium. Any member who 

 shall refuse to obey the Marshal, when acting within the sphere of his 

 duty, or shall resist him in the execution of his duties, shall be expelled 

 from the Society. 



