General Regulations for Exhibition, vii 



GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR EXHIBITION. 



I. No stock can be admitted for exhibition unless the necessary certi- 

 ficates, filled in, on the printed form prescribed, and signed by the 

 exhibitor (or his agent), in the manner directed, have been delivered to 

 the Secretary, or sent (postage free), so as to reach the Society's house. 

 No. 12, Hanover Square, London, on or before the 14th of June next ; 

 after which day no certificates will be accepted. Proper admission- 

 tickets, corresponding to the certificates, will be sent to the exhibitors, 

 and be required to be delivered with their animals on presenting them 

 for admission into the Show -yard ; when the printed numbers will also be 

 required to be affixed to each animal, respectively, by the persons who 

 are in charge of them. 



ir. The name and residence of the breeder of each animal exhibited, 

 when known, should be stated. 



III. Non-members will be required to pay five shillings for every 

 head or lot of live stock before obtaining tickets of admission to bring 

 their stock into the Show-yard ; and this amount must be remitted by 

 means of post-office order, made payable to the Secretary, and enclosed 

 with the certificate. 



IV. The same animal cannot be entered for two classes ; and in all 

 cases the age of an animal is to be computed from the day of birth, ex- 

 cepting in the case of horses, when the year only will be required. 



V. No animal which won a first prize in any class at the previous 

 meetings of the Society will be allowed to compete for a similar prize at 

 the meeting at Bristol. 



VI. The sheep exhibited for any of the prizes must have been really 

 and fairly shorn between the 1st of May and the 1st of July, 1842, 

 both days inclusive. 



VII. Persons intending to exhibit Extra Stock must give notice to 

 the Secretary on or before the 14th of June next. 



VIII. Any person who shall have been proved, to the satisfaction of 

 the Council, to have been excluded from showing for prizes at the exhi- 

 bition of any society in consequence of having been convicted of an 

 attempt to obtain a prize by giving a false certificate, shall not be 

 allowed to compete for any of the prizes offered by the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England. 



IX. In case any gentleman, or number of gentlemen, wish to offer a 

 prize for any class of stock not distinctly specified among the prizes 

 offered by the Society, he or they will be allowed to offer such prize at 

 the meeting at Bristol ; and the stock which shall compete for such 

 prize shall be exhibited, subject to such conditions as shall be decided 

 upon by the Council ; and the prize awarded by such of the judges as 

 the Council shall select. Animals exhibited for such prizes shall not 

 be prevented from competing for any of the prizes offered by the Society 

 for which they are qualified. 



X. Stock of every description can only be admitted into the Show- 

 yard on the presentation with them of the proper tickets, and between 

 the hours of eight in the morning and eight at night, on Tuesday the 

 12th of July; and must remain in the Show-yard until after six o'clock 



