:n^orfolk agricultural society, 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 grown or manufactured in the County, or in towns contiguous 

 thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays 

 and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will 

 be opened to general competition. 



The several Committees sei-ving at the Exhibition, excepting 

 those on Plowing and Drawing, are required to report at the office 

 of the 8ecretai-y at twelve o'clock on Thursday, when all vacancies 

 shall be filled by the Committee appointed for that purpose. 



^^ No person serving on any of the Committees shall act or vote 

 in any department in n'ltich he is p)ersonaUy interested as a comjjetitor. 



l^ Committees are prohibited from atvarding gratuities, other 

 than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list. 



B^ No object or article will be entitled to a p)remium, unless it 

 possesses poirds of superiority ; and the Committees are pirohibited 

 from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or objects 

 are not deemed worthy. 



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

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

 the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upward, shall 

 receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two dol- 

 lars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member. 



All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium — 

 herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on 

 the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first day 

 of the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will 

 not be allowed to be removed from the pens before three o'clock on 

 Friday, the second day ; and all other articles not until five 

 o'clock. 



