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V. No animal wliicli won a first prize in any class at the previous 

 meetings of the Society will be allowed to compete for a similar prize at 

 Liverpool. 



VI. The sheep exhibited for any of the prizes must have been really 

 and fairly shorn between the 1st of May and the 1st of July, 1841, both 

 days inclusive. 



VII. Persons intending to exhibit extra stock must give notice to the 

 Secretary on or before the 1st of July next. 



VIII. Any person who shall have been proved, to the satisfaction of 

 the Council, to have been excluded from showing for prizes at the exhi- 

 bition of any society in consequence of having been convicted of an 

 attempt to obtain a prize by giving a false certificate, shall not be 

 allowed to compete for any of the prizes offered by the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England. 



IX. In case any gentleman, or number of gentlemen, wish to offer a 

 prize for any class of stock not distinctly specified among the prizes 

 offered b}'' the Society, he or they will be allowed to offer such prize at 

 the Liverpool Meeting ; and the stock which shall compete for such 

 prize shall be exhibited, subject to such conditions as sliall be decided 

 npon by the Council ; and the prize awarded by such of the judges as 

 the Council shall select. Animals exhibited for such prizes shall not 

 be prevented from competing for any of the prizes offered by the Society 

 for which they are qualified, 



X. Stock of every description can only be admitted between the 

 hours of eight in the morning and eight at nighty on Tuesday the 20th 

 of July ; and must remain in the show-yard until after two o'clock in 

 the afternoon of Friday the 23d of July : and no animal can be re- 

 moved from its place, or taken out of the show-yard, Avithout leave in 

 writing from the Stewards. 



N.B. — Stallions only may be removed for the night. 

 XL Whenever reference is made to weights and measures, it is 

 to be considered that the imperial weights and measures only are 

 referred to. 



XII. Persons intending to exhibit seed-wheat, implements, seeds, 

 roots, &c., must give notice to the Secretary of the Society, in Caven- 

 dish Square, on or before the 1st of July, and furnish him with a de- 

 scription of the articles intended to be shown, and the probable space 

 which would be required for them, in order that the Council may be 

 enabled properly to apportion the space allotted for the exhibition of 

 such articles among the various parties making application : and the 

 articles to be exhibited must be brought to the show-yard either on 

 Friday, the 16th, or Saturday, the I7th of July, between the hours of 

 eight in the morning and six in the evening ; as none will be admitted 

 after those days. 



XIII. The judges of stock are to have the whole of Wednesday, the 

 21st of July, for making their adjudication, and signing their iiward, 

 without the admission of members, strangers, or candidates into any 

 part of the yard. 



XIV. No prize will be given when the judges shall be of opinion 

 that there is not sufficient merit in the stock, implements, &c., to justify 

 their award, especially in cases wdiere there is no competition. 



