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or a majority of them, shall require such reasonable proof 
that the several specimens so exhibited were actually card¬ 
ed, spun and wove in such county ; and shall immediately 
after 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 of Useful Arts, before the third Tuesday of Februa¬ 
ry in each year hereafter, during the continuance of this 
act, and the other to the comptroller; and the said clerks 
respectively 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 
number of specimens of woollen cloth exhibited annually as 
aforesaid, in their respective counties, together with the 
total number of yards so exhibited. 
III. And be it further enacted , That any person may be 
a candidate for the state premiums for domestic or family 
manufactures, without being so for the county premiums : 
Provided, That instead of sending a specimen, such per¬ 
son shall send the whole piece of thirty yards, and not less 
than three fourths of a yard in breadth, to the Society for 
the Promotion of Useful Arts, accompanied with such proof 
as they shall deem satisfactory, that the said cloth was man¬ 
ufactured in the manner directed by the second section of 
this act, within this state, from wool raised within the 
same. 
IV. And be it further enacted , That no person shall be 
entitled, in any one year, to more than one of the premiums 
for cloth of domestic manufacture, to be adjudged by the 
judges of the court of common pleas in the respective 
counties ; and the judges of the said courts who shall at¬ 
tend for the purpose of performing the duties enjoined by 
this act, shall respectively receive two dollars for each day’s 
