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This law was repealed April 5, 1810, after two years of 

 competition had been allowed, and another of similar object 

 was substituted. The quantity required in the samples 

 submitted to the society remained the same, and the rates 

 of premium were fixed at $100, $50 and $30. Three grades 

 of County premiums were introduced, of $40, $35 and $30, 

 the quantities required being thirty, twenty-five and twenty 

 yards respectively. The same person could receive but one 

 premium in a year, and cloth manufacturers were excluded 

 from competition. The law expired in one year, and the 

 year 1812 passed without the payment of premiums. 



On the 19th of June, 1812, the law was revived for three 

 years, with no other changes than a reduction of the re- 

 quired quantities in applications to the society to one-half 

 the former amount, while the breadth was doubled in the 

 two higher classes. The wool was required to be shorn 

 in the county where the cloth was made ; but one award 

 could be made the same year to one person, and cloth 

 manufacturers were excluded. In cases where all other 

 qualities were equal, regard was to be had to the superior- 

 ity of color and dye. This law was continued in force two 

 years, and in 1814 the number of specimens competing 

 averaged about six to a county so far as we have record. 



Each piece of plate voted during the five years bore the 

 following inscription : 



STATE OF NEW YORK, 

 181 . 



By the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts. This Premium is 

 awarded to of the County of for the best (or as the case may 



be) Specimen of Woolen Cloth of Family Manufacture exhibited the present 

 year. 



The Committee of the Society in 1809, 1810, consisted of 

 G. W. Y. Schaick, Isaac Hutton and William McClelland : in 

 18 1 1 the two former persons, and in 18 13, Isaac Hutton, John 

 Reid and Edmund Charles Genet. In 1814, George Clarke 

 was appointed in place of Genet. It is proper to state that 

 the samples of premium cloths put up in pursuance of the 



