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the said court was last held, unless the judges of the said 
court shall otherwise direct: Provided always , That in case 
the said court shall sit in any of the counties on the said 
third Tuesday of January, then and in that case the speci¬ 
mens of such county shall be presented where the court is 
so held, and the said judges of the respective counties of 
this state or such of them as shall attend, shall on that or 
on the succeeding day examine and determine who are en¬ 
titled to the said premiums ; and in case that not more than 
two of the said judges shall attend on the said third Tues¬ 
day of January in each year, then the clerk of the county 
shall be associated with the said two judges in examining 
the said specimens, and determine who are entitled to the 
said premiums ; that when two or more of the said judges 
shall attend, then the judges so attending shall make the 
examination and determination aforesaid, and in either case, 
previous to such determination, the said persons so attend¬ 
ing are hereby authorised to determine as aforesaid, or a 
majority of them, shall require such reasonable proof that 
the several specimens so exhibited were actually carded, 
spun and wove in such county; and shall immediately af¬ 
ter such determination, in each year, during the continu¬ 
ance of this act, make duplicate certificates of such deter¬ 
minations respectively, one whereof shall be securely at¬ 
tached to a piece, being at least one quarter of a yard, of 
each specimen of cloth adjudged to be the best as aforesaid, 
and sent to one of the secretaries of the Society for the Pro- 
motion ol Useful Arts, before the third Tuesday of February 
in each year hereafter, during the continuance of this act, 
and the other to the comptroller ; and the said clerks res¬ 
pectively are hereby directed at the time last aforesaid by 
writing to inform the secretary or vice-president of the said 
society, residing in the city of Albany, of the whole num¬ 
ber of specimens of woollen cloth exhibited annually as a- 
foresaid in their respective counties, together with the total 
number of yards so exhibited. 
