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friends of agriculture are invited to assist the society with 

 information of experiments and incidents in husbandry. 



XV. 



All claims of prizes sliall be sent in writing; and Avhen 

 read, the society shall determine wliich of the claims, rela- 

 tive to each prize, shall be selected for their definitive judg- 

 ment, on a future comparison. This judgment is to be 

 given at the stated meeting on the second Tuesday in Febru- 

 ary, but previously to such determination, all such claims 

 shall be submitted to, and reported upon by the curators. 

 If it happen, in any case, that there be no competition for 

 a prize, but only a single claim, the society will consider 

 such claim ; iiad if the claim or claims be supported an- 

 swerably to the views and just expectations of the society, 

 the prize proposed shall be decreed. Premiums and prizes 

 are equally due to any persons residing in any of the United 

 States, according to the merit of their respective exhibi- 

 tions. 



X\T. 



For the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of 

 the society, for premiums and prizes, books on agriculture, 

 improved instruments of husbandry, and other important 

 objects and contingencies, every member shall annually pay 

 to the treasurer a contribution of three doilars, and 

 any member paying thirty dollars, shall be considered a 

 member for life ; and shall not be called on for any farther 

 annual payments. This contribution shall be considered as 

 due and payable at or before the last day of December, in 

 every year. And at the first meeting in January of every 

 year, the treasurer shall lay before the society a list of the 

 members, specifying who have, and who have not paid their 

 contributions ; and any member whose contribution shall be 

 found to be more than two years in arrears, after the same 

 shall have become due and payable, as aforesaid, provided 

 payment thereof has been personally demanded of him by 



