EULES AND GENERAL EEMAEKS. 



It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 grown or manufactured in the County, unless otherwise specified 

 in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Implements being 

 excepted from this rule, will be open to general competition. 



J||@°=" Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, other 

 than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list. 



Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a 

 premium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member 

 of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upwards, 

 shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two 

 dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member. 



All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium — 

 bread and butter excepted — must be on the ground at or before 

 12 o'clock on Thursday, the first day of the Exhibition, to be en- 

 titled to any premium. Animals will not be allowed to be re- 

 moved from the pens before 3 o'clock on Friday, the second day, 

 and all other articles not until 5 o'clock, without the permission of 

 the Committee having them in charge. 



In order to extend liberal encoura2:ement to citizens of the 

 County living remote from the Society's grounds in Dedham, a 

 sum — not exceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for com- 

 pensation of travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine and 

 sheep, as have been brought or driven more than five miles — 

 reckoning the distance from whence they came to the place of 

 exhibition — and receive no premium. Only one travel will be 

 allowed to the same person. Payment Avill be made at the rate 

 of ten cents per mile, for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents 

 per mile, for each bull, cow, heifer, or yearlmg; ten cents per 

 mile, for each boar, sow or fitter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents 

 for each flock of sheep. But no such payment shall be made for 

 any animal, or animals, which, in the judgment of the Committee 

 appointed to examine them, are not of a superior character and 



