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RULES AND REGULATIONS 



Of the First Annual Fair of the Livingston County Agricultural 

 Society, to be held at Brighton, on Thursday and Friday, the 6th and 

 7th of October, 1853: 



Members of Viewing Committees are requested to report themselves 

 on Thursday the 6th, at nine o'clock A. M., at a meeting of the Board 

 of Directors, to be held at the show grounds, to the end that all vacan- 

 cies may be filled. It is important that the Committees should be punc- 

 tual to the hour appointed. 



Any person may become a member of the Society by the payment 

 of one dollar, and receive a ticket which will admit himself and family 

 to the exhibition, at all times during the continuance of the show. 



Single tickets at 12^ cents, admitting one person, will be for sale at 

 the oflSce near the entrance to the grounds, at all times. 



Exhibitors, intending to compete for premiums, must become mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



Persons wishing to offer their farms for premium, must give notice 

 to one of the Committee on Farms, at least one week before the Fair. 



Exhibitors are requested, as far as is convenient, to enter and arrange 

 their articles on Wednesday the 5th, so that they may be in readiness 

 for the examination of the Judges, on the forenoon of the 6th. The 

 Marshal, or his deputies, will be in readiness on the ground, to receive 

 the articles intended for exhibition, and assign for them an appropriate 

 department. 



All articles intended for exhibition, must be entered at the business 

 office, at the entrance to the show ground, before entering the enclosure, 

 where cards wiU be furnished by the Secretary, with the number aa 

 entered at the office. Exhibitors will place their cards on or near the 

 articles or animals to be exhibited, so that the Judges will find no diffi- 

 culty in designating them by the number. 



No articles or animals entered for exhibition, can be taken from the 

 ground before the close of the Fair, without permission of a member of 

 the Board of Directors — and any violation of this rule will forfeit all 

 claim to a premium on the article so removed. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES. 



The Judges on animals will have regard to the symmetry, early ma- 

 turity, size and general characteristics of animals they judge. They 



