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one hundred yards, and three quarters of a yard in breadth, 
shall be entitled to receive a premium of fifty dollars ; that 
such cloth shall, for the purpose aforesaid, be produced to 
the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, at the city of 
Albany, at any of their weekly meetings during the session 
of the legislature, before the said third Tuesday of Febru¬ 
ary next. 
II. And be it further enacted , That the person who shall, 
in his family, manufacture within any of the counties of 
this state, the best specimen of woollen cloth, of uniform 
texture and quality, not less than thirty yards, the breadth 
not less than three quarters of a yard, shall be entitled to 
a premium of eighty dollars, to be determined by a majori¬ 
ty of the judges of the court of common pleas of such 
county, on or before the last Tuesday in January next, who 
shall thereupon give duplicate certificates of such determi¬ 
nation, one whereof to be sent with a specimen of the cloth 
adjudged to be the best, not less than one quarter of a 
yard, to one of the secretaries of the said Society for the 
Promotion of Useful Arts, before the second Tuesday of 
February next, and the other to the comptroller. 
III. And be it further enacted , That the said Society for 
the Promotion of Useful Arts, shall, on the second Wednes¬ 
day of March next, by a plurality of voices, determine on 
the several specimens sent from the several counties afore¬ 
said, and shall determine on the first, second and third best 
specimens of such country domestic manufactured woollen 
cloth ; and shall adjudge to the first quality one hundred 
and fifty dollars, to the second one hundred dollars, and to 
the third fifty dollars, each in a piece of plate, with such 
appropriate inscriptions as to designate the objects for 
which they were respectively premiums. 
IV. And be it further enacted , That the said Society for 
the Promotion of Useful Arts shall prescribe the mode of 
ascertaining that the cloth was manufactured in this state, 
in such manner as they shall deem proper to guard against 
impositions. 
