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the power of appointing one of more honorary members from each 

 State, "whose especial duty it shall be to give information regard- 

 ing the fair, to such of its citizens as may desire to become exhibi- 

 tors thereat. 



§ 4. Whenever the Institute shall authorize any special exhibi- 

 tion of vegetables, fruit, flowers, or of specimens of mechanical 

 or chemical skill and ingenuity other than at autumnal fairs, the 

 same shall be held under the direction of the board of managers. 



§ 5. The first duty of the board of managers, after it has been 

 decided to hold a fair, shall be to issue a circular inviting all in- 

 ventors and proprietors of machines, manufactures, works of art, 

 and all cultivators of agricultural and horticultural products, to 

 exhibit the same, setting forth the advantages to be derived from 

 such exhibitions. In order to explain the arrangements and ex- 

 tent of the several departments, they shall also publish in such 

 circular the classification in section 6, which shall be adhered to as 

 far as the room occupied b}' the fair will allow, in the distribution 

 of space, and in the location of the articles received for exhibition. 

 ■ § 6. Classification at the annual exhibition. 



I. — Department of Fine Arts and Education. 



1st Group. Paintings on canvas, glass, and other surfaces; pastels, 

 cartoons, miniatures. 



2d Group. Engravings, lithographs, chemical etchings, plain and 

 colored, enamel work, designs and drawings relating 

 to architecture and civil engineering. 



3d Group. Photographs, plain and colored, daguerreotypes, am- 

 brotypeg. All other impressions by the action of 

 light. 



4th Group. Sculpture, cameos, medals, medallions, bas relief, em- 

 bossed work, fine castings m bronze, zinc, and other 

 metals. 



5th Group. Musical instruments — pianos, organs, melodeons, instru- 

 ments used in bands and concerts. 



6th Group. Specimens of printing and bookbinding, stationery, 

 globes, maps, charts, and all apparatus for instruct- 

 ing in science, tables and machines for calculation. 



lihGroup. Philosophical instruments, mathematical and measur- 

 ing instruments, dials, chronometers, watches and 

 clocks, telescopes, microscopes, lenses, cameras and 

 other optical itntruments, excepting those to be 

 ^carried in the pocket. 



