10 AGttlCULTURAr. MUSEUJil 



SO convened, to determine upon, fix and make public, sucii 

 premiums, under proper restrictions, as they may deem 

 most conducive to promote the views of the Society ; in the 

 absence ofthe President, Vice President andSecrctary, or 

 cither of them, to make a temporary appointment of a suit- 

 able person or persons in his or thoir place ; and in gene- 

 ral to take such measures and do such thing's, under the 

 direction ofthe Society, as shall to them appear meet — And 

 as individuals, it shall be their duty to pay a particular at- 

 tention to the state of agriculture in their own neighbor- 

 hood.^, to the manner of raising and supporting stock, 

 a,nd to the progress of domestic manufactures ; and in con- 

 iunction with such members of the Society as may reside 

 in their vicinage, to use their endeavors to coriect such 

 errors and to introduce such improvements, in rural and 

 domestic economy, as they may be enabled to discover 

 from their own experience and observation, or from their 

 cori-espondence and connection with the Society. 



8. All premiums shall be adjudged at one of the general 

 meetings of the Society, by a board or boards, of five 

 members, appointed by the President and Standing Com. 

 mittcc,from among such disinterested persons as may be 

 present. 



9. No person shall be allowed to exhibit any article for 

 premium unless it has been raised, grown, or made in 

 fiome County of this District, or ofthe adjoining States, in 

 ■which there shall reside at least one member of this Socie- 

 ty, or any article for which a public premium shall have 

 i^reviously been given. 



10. No premium shall be given for any articles of ma- 

 nufacture, which have not been either spun or woven in 

 the families from which they may be exhibited, and which 

 have not been both spun and woven in this district or the 

 adjoining states, 



11 'J'hc Society willlay no claim to an}' article for which 

 a [); eminin has been awarded, but the owner or exhibiter 

 ajay, iauucdiatcly alter the adjournment of the society oq^-. 



