18 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



5. Articles presented for competition by apprentices or minors, 

 must be so designated at the time of entry. 



6. No articles deposited after Wednesday, October 3, will be 

 entered on tlie judges' list for competition or premium, except such 

 as the managers are satisfied were dispatched from a distance in 

 time to have reached the exhibition by that day, but failed to 

 arrive from unavoidable detention ; and also articles intended for 

 the horticultural department. 



7. All articles at the fair are at the risk of the owners, 

 who are expected to be present during the hours of exhibition. 

 The managers will direct the most efficient measm-es for the pro- 

 tection of property ; which, however, in no case is to be considered 

 at the risk of the Institute. Contributors for competition are re- 

 quested to leave with the clerk the keys of their cases, numbered 

 to correspond with the entry, on or before Wednesday, the 10th 

 day of October, that the judges may have an opportunity of in- 

 specting the articles. 



8. Proper order will, at all times, be preserved by an efficient 

 police, who will be present to prevent olfences against exliibiters 

 and visitors. 



9. Competitors for premiums cannot be present diuing the 

 examination, except at the request of the judges. 



10. No exhibiter will be permitted to remove his articles until 

 the final close of the fair, unless by permission of the managers. 



11. The floor committees for tlie different departments will 

 have the charge of placing and arranging all articles exhibited. In 

 case of any misunderstanding, application must be made to them. 



12. Premiums of gold and silver medals, diplomas, &c., Avillbe 

 awarded by the board of managers, on such articles as the judges 

 shall decide meritorious. They will be announced on the last 

 evening of the fair, and the premiums will be delivered at the 

 Eepository of the Institute, No. 351 Eroadway, as soon as possible 

 thereafter. Eut in no case, for want of competition or for other cause, 

 will any article be entitled to premium, if adjudged intrinsically 

 not deserving particular commendation. 



13. Fires will not be allowed in stoves, ranges, or furnaces on 

 exhibition. 



14. No medicines, nostrums, or articles of that nature, made 

 and sold exclusively by the inventor or his agent, shall be exhibi- 

 ted at the fair. 



Communications in relation to the Twenty-Seventh Annual Fair, 

 should be addressed, " Wm. B. Leonard, Cor. Secretary Ameri- 

 can Institute, 351 Broadway, New- York." 



