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For the best and second best specimens of Broadcloths, and plain 

 and fancy Cassimeres, made altogether or in part from foreign wool, 

 a Diploma for the skill in manufacturing. 



Cloths and Cassimeres, if exhibited for premiums, must have no 

 marks whereby the judges can know by whom they were made. Af- 

 ter the judges have passed upon them, the owners or agents can place 

 their labels upon them. 



For the purpose of exciting emulation and improvements among the 

 ingenious youth of our country, during their apprenticeship, $500 

 have been appropriated to be bestowed in premiums for work of ap- 

 prentices or minors, to embrace all the objects of art and industry for 

 which the Institute offers premiums. 



Each apprentice or minor will be required to bring a certificate 

 from his employer, or some responsible person, stating the age of the 

 apprentice or minor, and that the work is entirely his or her own A 

 separate list of work will be kept, so that minors shall compete with 

 minors only, and not with experienced and finished workmen. 



Discretionary premiums in money, from three to ten dollars, with a 

 diploma, will be awarded to apprentices or minors for all meritorious 

 articles. It is anticipated that a full share of these prizes will be won 

 by the young ladies. The ingenuity, delicacy, brilliancy, and utility 

 of their fabrics, have never failed to command the admiration of the 

 ^dsiting multitudes, and always rendered the place assigned for them 

 a centre of attraction. 



• The Managers therefore appeal to the ladies for a continuance of 

 their noble spirit in a glorious cause, calculated to refine and exalt so- 

 ciety, and solicit their presence, and invoke their special patronage for 

 the Twenty-first Annual Fair. 



Premiums contributed by individuals to promote objects deemed by 

 them worthy of special encouragement. 



The Van Schaick Premium. 

 The annual premium of $100 for Silk, given by the Hon. Myndert 

 Van Schaick, will be awarded at the Twenty-first Annual Fair, Oct. 

 1848, as follows: 



The Silk to be the growth of the United States, and to be manufac- 

 tured within the year. 



