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35. After the Eeport on the Trial and Exhibition of the Implements has appeared 



in the Journal, a copy of that Report will be delivered gratis to such 

 exhibitors of implements as may not be members of the Society, upon their 

 making application for it to the Secretary, at No. 12, Hanover Square. 



36. Exhibitors of implements will have a free ticket of admission sent to them, 



along with their " Admission Order." 



37. The Judges' decision will in all cases be final. 



38. If a notice in writing shall be delivered to the Stewards that any invention is 



considered to be an infringement of the right of another party, the imple- 

 ment may still be tried if selected by the Judges for that purpose ; and if 

 on such trial the invention should be found to merit the prize, the prize 

 shall be awarded, subject to the condition of payment being suspended for a 

 reasonable period, to allow the trial of the rights of the parties at law ; 

 and if no steps at law are taken in the next term, the award shall be 

 absolute. 



39. Any person who shall have been shown, to the satisfaction of the Council, to 



have been excluded from exhibiting for prizes at the exhibition of any 

 society, in consequence of having been convicted of an attempt to obtain a 

 prize by giving a false certificate, will not be allowed to compete for any 

 of the prizes offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, or at 

 any of their Meetings. 



Instructions to the Judges. 



1. The Judges will have the Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, for 

 making their adjudication and signing their awards. 



2. The Judges will be instructed neither to divide nor to increase any of the 

 specific prizes. If they should not award any specific prize mentioned in the Prize 

 Sheet, they will be instructed not to appropriate that sum to any other description 

 of implement. 



3. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 

 will be instructed to make a special report to the Council, who will decide on 

 the award. 



4. The Judges will be instructed to withhold any prize, if they shall be of opinion 

 that there is not sufficient merit in any of the implements exhibited for such prize 

 to justify an award. 



5. The Judges will be requested to observe that, in addition to the specific 

 prizes, there are Ten of the Silver Medals which they have the power of distri- 

 buting in av\^ards among the Exhibitors of such miscellaneous articles as they may 

 decide to possess sufficient merit. 



6. The Judges will also be empowered to award a Silver Medal for any new 

 principle of construction which they may consider an essential improvement, even 

 though the implement in which it is introduced should not be adjudged to be the 

 best of its class. In all such cases it will be necessary for the Judges to specify 

 clearly the exact nature of the improvement for which the Medal is awarded. 



7. The Judges will be instructed to deliver to the Director their final and com- 

 plete awards of all prizes and medals, before they leave the yard, on the evening of 

 Tuesday in the week of exhibition, in order that the necessary placards may be 

 placed on the Prize Implements. 



8. The Judges will be requested to observe that it is left to their discretion to 

 select the implements for trial. 



9. In making their decision, the Judges will be instructed to take the selling 

 prices of the implements into consideration. 



10. The Judges will be instructed to pay particular attention to the 20th General 

 Regulation above written. 



11. The Judges will be instructed to employ in the trial of the steam-engines an 

 apparatus known as a " Force-Resister," as a test of power — such apparatus con- 

 sisting of a friction-break, to supply and regulate the frictiou required to balance 

 the power of the engine, as well as to show the utmost resistance for any quantity 

 of power the engine on trial may require. 



12. The Judges will be instructed to ascertain, in every engine, and report in 

 their award, whether regulators or governors are used in the steam-engines which 



