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PEEMIUMS. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR COMPETITORS. 



1. It is to bo distinctly understood that the Society is not 

 responsible for the views, statements, or opinions of any of the 

 writers whose papers are published in the Transactions. 



2. All reports must be legibly written, and on one side of the 

 paper only ; they must specify the number and subject of the 

 Premium for which they are in competition ; they niust bear a 

 distinguishing motto, and be accompanied by a sealed letter 

 similarly marked, containing the name and address of the 

 Reporter — initials must not be used. 



3. No sealed letter, unless belonging to a report found entitled 

 to at least one-half of the Premium offered, will be opened with- 

 out the author's consent. 



4. Reports for which a Premium, or one-half of it, has been 

 awarded, become the property of the Society, and cannot be 

 published in whole or in part, nor circulated in any manner, 

 without the consent of the Directors. All other papers will be 

 returned to the authors if applied for within twelve months. 



5. When a report is unsatisfactory, the Society is not bound 

 to award the whole or any part of a Premium. 



6. All reports must be of a practical character, containing the 

 results of the writer's own observation or experiment, and the 

 special conditions attached to each Premium must be strictly 

 fulfilled. General essays, and papers compiled from books, will 

 not be rewarded. Weights and measurements must be indicated 

 by the Imperial standards. 



7. The Directors, before awarding a Premium, shall have 

 power to require the writer of any report to verify the state- 

 ments made in it. 



8. The decisions of the Board of Directors are final and con- 

 clusive as to all Premiums, whether for Reports or at General or 

 District Shows ; and it shall not be competent to raise any 

 question or appeal touching such decisions before any other 

 tribunal. 



9. The Directors will welcome papers fi^om any Contributor on 

 any suitable subject not included in the Premium List ; and if 

 the topic and the treatment of it are both approved, the writer 

 will be remunerated, and his paper published. 



