86 General Regulations. 



Provision for the night at the expense of the Society, will be made for 

 the stock of competitors living ten or more miles from the grounds of 

 exhibition. 



Xo animal or article in any of the departments will receive any premium 

 whore in the opinion of the Committee it is palpably undeserving, even 

 though no competitor should appear against, any such animal or article so 

 presented. The object of the Society is not to give away premiums, but 

 to promote improvement in the various departments by inciting a proper 

 emulation. Any unfair or disingenuous means resorted to by any competi- 

 tor, is in contravention to the spirit of the institution, and subjects the of- 

 fender to a penalty ; and the Committees in conducting their examinations 

 and in determining the awards will be governed strictly by these consider- 

 ations. 



All persons appointed to serve as committees, who should desire to com- 

 pete for premiums in their own division, and who do not notify the Secre- 

 tary to that effect, at least one week before the time of the Fair, shall be 

 excluded from competing for such premiums. 



Competitors will bear in mind the following section of a Statute of the 

 Commonwealth : — 



An extract from the "General Statutes of tlie Commonwealth of Massachusetts," Page 376, Chapter 66. 

 Sec. fi. "No society receiving the bounty, shall distribute any part thereof for any 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 pre- 

 mium has been awarded to the owners by any such society, shaU be considered subject for any 

 further premium of the society except for qualities different from those for which the former pre- 

 mium was awarded or for a higher premium, and no animal or article shall be offered for a premi- 

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



Sec. 7. A Society which 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. 



Where any premium appears to have been illegally awarded, the Treas- 

 urer may withhold it at the time of distributing the awards, and the Execu- 

 tive Committee will meet at Great Barrington, on the Monday next suc- 

 ceeding the Fair, for the purpose of examining the list of awards, and if it 

 shall appear that any premium has been improperly withheld, they shall 

 authorize the Treasurer to deliver the same to the claimant, or if they shall 

 find that any premium has been awarded by mistake, or in violation of the 

 By-Laws and Regulations of the Society, the Committee shall require that 

 person so receiving the premium to return the same, and may recommend 

 such proceedings in the case as they may deem proper. 



All premiums remaining uncalled for in the Treasurer's hands on the first 

 of January succeeding the award, will revert to the Society. 



Merchants and others wishing to make a display of their goods and wares 

 for exhibition only, will have good facilities afforded for their accommoda- 

 tion without charge. 



Individuals having works of art or curiosity which they are willing to 

 exhibit without competition, are respectfully solicted to do so, free of charge. 

 Cards will be attached to the articles, and honorable mention made when 

 deemed worthy. 



