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and C. A. Learned, In accordance with the requirements of the 

 Schedule, persons competing for these prizes must renew their 

 stands each day of the exhibition, and the prizes are to be awarded 

 for the best specimens best kept during the four days, the award 

 being made on the morning of the last day. In making their 

 examination the Committee found that on the first two days C. A. 

 Learned's stand was best, but on the following two days W. W. 

 Rawson was first ; and after diligent search, failing to discover a 

 single point wherein one stand excelled the other, the Committee 

 came to the conclusion that in this dilemma the fairest way to 

 decide the matter was to make an equal division of the first and 

 second prizes between the competitors, which was accordingly 

 done. 



Prizes and gratuities have been awarded during the year to sixty- 

 five different contributors, and out of the appropriation made for 

 this department an unexpended balance of twenty-four dollars 

 remains to be returned to the treasury. 



Annexed is a list of the awards in prizes and gratuities which 

 have been made by your Committee during the year. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Charles N. Brackett, 



Warren Heustis, 



Cephas H. Brackett, 



George Hill, \ y^^^tahU 



P. G. Hanson, ' GommUtee. 



Varnum Frost, 



Jacob Hittinger. 



