ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTTTLITE. 



EXTRACT FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE AMERICAN 

 INSTITUTE RELATING TO ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS. 



ARTICLE X. 



DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



Section 1. The board of managers shall organize by appointing 

 a chairman and vice-chairman from their own number, and a sec- 

 retary ; and after such organization, if it is decided to h<old a fair, 

 they shall be entitled to the services of the corresponding secre- 

 tary of the Institute in preparing circlars and conducting the pre- 

 liminary correspondence relating to the exhibition, and the clerk 

 of the Institute shall act as their principal clerk, and be in 

 constant attendance during such exhibition. 



§ 2. There shall be held in the autumn of each year, unless 

 otherwise ordered by the Iustitnt(3, a fair, in the city of New York, 

 imder the direction of the board of managers, embracing an exhi- 

 bition of the products of agriculture, manufactures, commerce, 

 and the arts of the United States. The said board may hold, in 

 connection with the fair, a show of live stock whenever they shall 

 deem it expedient ; they shall also have the power to make, or 

 cause to be made, a comparative test of ploughs, mowers, reapers, 

 diggers, and other agricultural implements, by putting them into 

 practical operation in the vicinity of the city of New York. They 

 shall further be empowered to examine or cause to be examined 

 any manufacturing process or heavy machinery in operation which 

 it would be impracticable to exhibit within the limits of the fair. 



§ 3. Whenever the building and grounds occupied by the In- 

 stitute for the annual exhibition are suiEciently extensive to war- 

 rant the accommodation of specimens and products of industry 

 from all the States in the Union, the board of managers shall have 



