llfr RULES. 



KULES. 



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 the 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 Society, 

 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 Statutes of the Commonwealth of- 

 Massachusetts" Page 376, Chapter 66. 



Sec. 4. " No society receiving the bounty, shall distribute any part 

 thereof for an animal or article for which a premium is awarded, unless 

 it was produced within the limits of the society, or the animal has 

 been owned and kept within its limits, by the person to whom the 

 premium is awarded, for three months next preceding the award. 

 And no animal or article for which a premium has been awarded to the 

 owners by any such society, shall be considered a subject for any 

 further premium of the society, except for qualities different from 

 those for which the former premium was awarded, or for a higher 

 premium, and no animal or article shall be offered for a premium at 

 more than one such society in the same year." * 



Sec. 6. " A society which neglects in any year to comply with the 

 laws relating thereto, or with the regulal the board of agri- 



culture iot be entitled to the bounty of the state the year next 



