46 FINE WOOL SHEEP IUSBANDRY. 
cloth, of uniform texture and quality,” “ofa breadth 
of not less than three-quarters of a yard,” manufac- 
tured within the state; a premium of $80 to the best 
specimen manufactured in a family in each county of 
the state; and premiums of $150, $75 and $50, in 
plate, to the three best of the last named county 
domestic specimens in the whole state.* 
The act of April 5, 1810, after declaring that “im- 
portant advantages, materially connected with the 
prosperity of the state, have resulted” from the prece- 
ding law, proceeds to amend it in some particulars 
which do not require mention. It wasagain amended 
in 1812,¢ and the preamble of the act declared that 
“the rapid increase in the manufacture of woolen 
cloth within the State of New York, and the great 
improvements in that branch of national industry, 
fully and satisfactorily evince that the bounties 
granted for that object have been highly useful, and 
that their continuance will be eminently beneficial.” 
By this law the two principal state premiums were 
paid only for broadcloths. 
It appears by a report of the State Comptroller,t 
that the sums paid out in premiums under these laws 
were as follows: 
* To obtain the first premium of $150, open to the competition of 
manufactories, the specimen of cloth was required to equal 200 yards, 
the second 150 yards, and the third 100 yards. The county speci- 
mens were required to equal 30 yards. The three first premiums, 
and the plate for the county specimens, were adjudged by the Society 
for the Promotion of Useful Arts—the county specimens by “‘a majority 
of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas.” 
+ Perhaps technically they were new acts. 
+ Made March 5, 1816, 
