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RULES. 



RULES. 



All teams entered for plowing and for draught, must have been 

 owned by the person entering the same for at least three months next 

 previous, and the team must be driven, and the plow managed by him 

 or by some one usually in his employ. 



Any person competing for a premium who shall serve on a Com- 

 mittee having charge of the department in which he competes, shall 

 retire from the Committee while his own competition is in question. 



The several Committees will not consider themselves bound by the 

 terms of the above offers, to award a premium for anything which they 

 shall deem inferior. 



Any person to whom a Premium shall have been awarded in conse- 

 quence of any deception or misrepresentation used by him, shall not 

 only forfeit such premium, but afterward be incapable of competing for 

 the Society's Premiums. 



All persons (ladies and minors excepted), not members of the Soci- 

 ety, to whom may be awarded a Premium or Premiums amounting to 

 $5,00 or upwards, shall receive a certificate of membership for $5,00, 

 and the balance in cash. If the amount shall be less than $5,00, a 

 deduction of fifty per cent, will be made, unless the individual chooses 

 to make the amount up to that sum, and receive a certificate of 

 membership. 



All Premiums not demanded on or before November 30th, will 

 revert to the Society. 



An extract from the General Laws of Massachusetts, passed in 1859. 



Chap. 232, Sec. 1. "No animal or article,- for which a premium 

 shall have been awarded to the owner, by any incorporated Agricul- 

 tural Society, receiving the bounty of the State, shall be considered a 

 subject for any further premium of the same or any other such incor- 

 porated Society, except for qualities different from those for which the 

 former premium was awarded, or for a higher premium ; and no animal • 

 or article in any year offered for a premium, at any such Society, shall 

 be offered for a premium at any other such Society in the same year ; 

 but nothing in this Act shall affect, restrain, or limit a competitor for 

 premiums offered by the State Board of Agriculture, or the Massachu- 

 setts Society for the promotion of Agriculture, to be awarded within 

 the incorporated County Agricultural Societies ; but such premiums 

 shall be subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by said Board, 

 or by the Trustees of said Massachusetts Society." 



Sec. 5. " A Society which shall neglect, in any year, to comply 

 with the several general laws concerning Agricultural Societies, or with 

 such regulations of the Board of Agriculture, shall not be entitled to 

 the bounty of the State the year next succeeding." 



