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and requested to signify in a written answer their acceptance, or refusal 

 to accept, and in case no answer is returned, or in case of a declina- 

 ture, others to be appointed instead by the accepting rnanafrers. No 

 article should be permitted to be taken from the agricultural room 

 until the close of the Fair, even by the owner, except on the order 

 of the managers, founded on the statement of the superintendent of 

 the room, that the article is in a perishable state, or entered for com- 

 petition and required for testing by the judges. 



Let it not be supj)osed, from the ibregoing remarks or suggestions, 

 that we desire to confine the managers of future fairs within too narrow 

 limits, or restrict them to a penurious expenditure for the purposes 

 of the fair. All that can be reasonably expected is the restriction 

 of contracts to <erms that are reasonably proportioned to the services 

 required, and such an abstinence from all unnecessary expenditures as 

 shall demonstrate that no personal object influences any of those 

 engaged in the management of the fairs of the American Institute, 

 further than tfeir interests are identical with the public good— that 

 " all the ends we aim at, are our country's." 



Respectfully submitted. 



JAMES VAN NORDEN, 

 Chairman Board of Managers \Qth Annual Fair, 



Geo. R. J. BowDOWN, Secretary. 



Xew- York, January llfA, 1844, 



