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Rules for Exhibition, continued. 



nomenclature, should, for the convenience of awarding com- 

 mittees and other officers, be each of a different color, or other- 

 wise printed in different colored inks. 



Exhibitors will not be permitted to sell and deliver the arti- 

 cles they may have entered for exhibition ; nor to bring fruit, 

 nor any other article, for the purpose of sale, on a penalty of 

 forfeiture of all premiums, but such articles must remain in 

 charge of the officers until the close of the exhibition. 



Any exhibitor interfering with awarding committees, while 

 in the discharge cf their duties, will be held, by so doing, to 

 have forfeited all premiums. 



For Awarding Committees. i. The division superintend, 

 ent will be a member and clerk of the Awarding Committee 

 for his division. The remaining members of each committee 

 will be selected with great care from the best horticulturists of 

 this and neighboring states. The names of such persons will 

 not be made public until the time of the fair. 



2. Members of the Awarding Committee are requested to re- 

 port to the president, at the secretary's office, on or before 

 noon of the second day of the fair, that the places of those 

 failing to report may be supplied. 



3. The president is chairman of the committee on nomen- 

 clature ; but to expedite the business of correction, the super- 

 intendent of each division will correct the nomenclature of his 

 division, appealing to the chairman in all doubtful cases, and 

 attaching the committee's card in all cases in which correc- 

 tions are made. 



4. No exhibitor will be permitted to act on a committee in a 

 class in which he shall exhibit for premiums. 



5. Members of the Awarding Committees are requested to 

 report to the president, at the secretary's office, at i o'clock p. 

 M. on Thursday, when they will receive their committee 

 books, together with such explanations and instructions as may 

 at the time seem needful. 



6. Upon conclusion of their labors, not later than the after- 



