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GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR EXHIBITION. 
I. No stock can be admitted for exhibition unless the necessary certi- 
ficates, filled in, on the printed form prescribed, and signed by the 
exhibitor (or his agent), in the manner directed, shall have been de- 
livered to the Secretary, or sent (postage free), so as to reach the 
Society's house. No. 12, Hanover Square, London, on or before the 1st 
of May next for implements, and the 1st of June for all other purposes ; 
after which days respectively no certificates will be accepted. Proper 
admission-orders, corresponding to the certificates, will be sent to the 
exhibitors, and be required to be delivered with their animals or articles 
on presenting them for admission into the Show-yard ; when the printed 
numbers will also be required to be affixed to each animal or article, 
respectively, by the persons who are in charge of them. 
II. The name and residence of the breeder of each animal intended 
for exhibition, when known, should be stated. 
III. Non-members will be required to pay five shillings for every 
entry of live stock, or assortment of articles for exhibition, before 
obtaining orders of admission to bring their animals or articles into 
the Show-yard ; and this amount must be remitted by means of post- 
office order, made payable to the Secretary, and enclosed with the cer- 
tificate or entry. 
IV. The same animal cannot be entered for two classes ; and in all 
cases the age of an animal is to be computed from the day of birth, ex- 
cepting in the case of horses, when the year only will be required. 
V. No animal which won a first prize in any class at any previous 
meeting of the Society will be allowed to compete for a similar prize at 
the meeting at Southampton. 
VI. The sheep to be exhibited for any of the prizes must have been 
really and fairly shorn between the 1st of May and the 1st of July, 
1844, both days inclusive. 
VII. All animals intended to be exhibited as Extra Stock must be 
duly entered on the printed forms, as in the cases of animals to be 
shown in the classes. 
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 by the Society, he or they will be allowed to offer such prize at the 
meeting at Southampton; and the stock which shall compete for such 
prize shall be exhibited, subject to such conditions as shall be decided 
upon by the Council ; and the ])rize 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 off'ered by the Society 
for which they are qualified. 
