EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
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4. The age of each animal, calculated up to the 1st of July inclusively, 
must be stated in the Certificate. In all cases the age of the animal is to be 
computed from the day of its birth, excepting in the case of Horses, when 
the year only will be required. 
5. The same animal cannot be entered in two Classes, either for the Prizes 
of the Society or of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; nor 
can any animal entered for competition in either of those two divisions be 
allowed to compete in the other division. 
6. In every Certificate for Live-Stock, the exhibitor will be required to 
sign an engagement to forfeit and pay to the Society the sum of £20, as and 
for liquidated damages, if the animal, or any of the animals (as the case may 
be) which he exhibits are, to his knowledge, suffering under any contagious 
or infectious disease. 
Arrival of Live-Stock. 
7. No Stock whatever will be admitted into the Yard for exhibition 
unless the necessary Certificate has been sent to the Secretary by the 
proper time. 
8. All Stock entered for exhibition may be brought to the Show-Yard 
between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the afternoon of 
Monday, the 23rd of June, and must all be in the Yard by four p.m. on 
Tuesday, the 21th of June; none will be admitted after the latter hour. 
9. The Parchment Ticket, which will be sent by the Director, must be 
firmly tied on each animal before it is brought to the Gate. 
10. The “ Admission Order,” which will also be sent by the Director 
for Stock properly entered, must be delivered to the Gate-keeper of the 
Yard by the person who brings the Stock for admission. 
Departure of Stock after the Show. 
11. All Stock must remain in the Show-Yard until after Six o’clock in 
the afternoon of Wednesday, the 2nd of July, and as much longer as the 
Director may consider it necessary. 
General Rules. 
12. No Horse will be allowed to leave the Show-Yard during the ichole 
period that the Exhibition lasts. 
13. The Society will not, in any case, or under any circumstances, hold 
itself responsible for any loss, damage, or mis-delivery of Live-Stock, or 
other articles exhibited at the Society’s Show. 
11. No animal which Las won a First Prize in any Class at a previous 
Meeting of the Society, will be allowed to compete for a similar Prize at the 
Meeting at London. 
15. No animal that has been exhibited at a Fat Stock Show shall com¬ 
pete for the Prizes of the Society. 
16. No person who shall have been shown, to the satisfaction of the 
Council, to have been excluded from exhibiting for Prizes at the Exhibition 
of any Society, in consequence of having been convicted of an attempt to 
obtain a Prize by giving a false Certificate, shall be allowed to compete for 
any of the Prizes offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at 
any of its Meetings. 
17. Any Prize may be withheld when the Judges are of opinion that 
there is not sufficient merit in the Stock exhibited for such Prize to justify 
an award. 
18. All Servants coming in charge of Stock will be subject to the orders 
of the Director and Stewards of the Cattle Yard. 
