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Rules for Exhibition (Mich. Hort. Society), continued. 



out permission of the officer in charge, will by so doing forfeit 



his right to such premium. 



The name of the fruit should in no case appear on the entry- 

 card, except only in the case of single plates or other single 

 articles. 



Entry-cards, name-cards, and the cards of the committee on 

 nomenclature, should, for the convenience of awarding commit- 

 tees and other officers, be each of a different color, or otherwise 

 printed in different-colored inks. 



Exhibitors will not be permitted to sell and deliver the arti- 

 cles they may have entered for exhibition, or to bring fruit or 

 any other article for the purpose of sale, on a penalty of for- 

 feiture of all premiums, but such articles must remain in charge 

 of the officers until the close of the exhibition. 

 * Any exhibitor interfering with awarding committees while in 

 discharge of their duties, will be held, by so doing, to have for- 

 feited all premiums. 



For Awarding Committees. — 1. The division superintendent will 

 be a member and clerk of the awarding committee for his divis- 

 ion. The remaining members of each committee will be selected 

 with great care from the best horticulturists of this and neigh- 

 boring states. The names of such persons will not be made 

 public until the time of the fair. 



2. Members of the awarding committee are requested to report 

 to the president, at the secretary's office, on or before noon of the 

 second day of the fair, that the places of those failing to report 

 may be supplied. 



3. The president is chairman of the committee on nomencla- 

 ture ; but to expedite the business of correction the superinten- 

 dent of each division will correct the nomenclature of his division, 

 appealing to the chairman in all doubtful cases, and attaching 

 the committee's card in all cases in which corrections are made. 



4. No exhibitor will be permitted to act on a committee in a 

 class in which he shall exhibit for premiums. 



5. Members of the awarding committee are requested to re- 

 port to the president, at the secretary's office, at 1 o'clock p. m. 

 on Thursday, when they will receive their committee books, to- 

 gether with such explanations and instructions as may at the 

 time seem needful. 



