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third best specimen of comity family manufactured woollen 
cloth, a premium of seventy dollars, in a piece or pieces of 
plate. 
T. ROMEYN RECK, Recording Secretary. 
Each of the Pieces of Plate voted during the last six years 
by the Society, bear the following inscription. 
STATE OF JYEW-YORK , 
181 
By the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, 
This Premium is awarded to of the County of for 
the best (or as the case may be) specimen of Woollen 
Cloth, of family manufacture, exhibited the present year. 
The recording secretary reports, that in obedience to 
the provisions of the act entitled “ An Act for the Encour¬ 
agement of Manufactures of Woollen Clothf passed June 
19th, 1812, he has received returns from the clerks of the 
following counties, detailing the quantity of cloth exhibited 
for premiums before the respective judges of county courts, 
in January, 1814, viz. 
1. Greene county, 7 specimens, amounting to 233 yards. 
2. Oneida county, 1 specimen, ^ 36 
3. Onondaga county, 5 specimens, - 147 1-4 
4. Ontario county, 5 specimens, - 149 1-2 
5. Otsego county, 8 specimens, - 246 1-2 
6. Rensselaer county, 10 specimens, - 273 1-4 
7. Schoharie county, - - 130 
8. St. Lawrence county, 5 specimens, - 155 
9. Sullivan county, 5 specimens, - 140 
10. Ulster county, 12 specimens, - 367 
Yards, 1877 1-2 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
T. ROMEYN BECK, R* S. 
