■*■"" 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 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 So- 

 ciety, to whom may be awarded a premium or premiums amounting to 

 ^5,00 or upwards, shall receive a certificate of membership for 85,00 

 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 mem- 

 bership. 



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 6G. 



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

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

 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 subject for any further premium of 

 the society, except for qualities different from those for which the for- 

 mer 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. G. "A society winch neglects in any year to comply with the 

 laws relating thereto, or with the regulations of the board of agriculture, 

 shall not be entitled to the bounty of the state the year next succeeding. 



