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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
satisfied with our awards, as being the best we could do under 
the circumstances. 
In the department of Fancy Work, there are so many 
articles that do not strictly come under any of the distinctive 
heads, for which premiums are offered, that we have been 
obliged to take large discretionary powers. 
Taking $3 as the highest premium offered in our “ Class,” we 
have graduated our awards accordingly. To decide the merits 
of individual exhibitions, comparison was made with others 
in the Hall, as regards skill, taste and labor expended, and 
also with our idea of what the articles should be to deserve 
the 1st, 2d or 3d premiums. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Mrs. A. G. Hanford, 1 n ... 
Miss E. E. Cheesbko. } C°™nUee. 
WORKS OF ART. 
Your Committee regret that the exhibition of articles in the 
class for which they were appointed to act as judges, has been 
meagre in numbers and not very remarkable as to merit, for the 
most part. They had cherished the hope, that, with the erec¬ 
tion of a building in which valuable works of art could be 
exhibited with safety to themselves, there would have been 
shown a disposition on the part of both artists and owners 
to give the public an opportunity to examine such works. 
They have endeavored to do impartial justice in their awards, 
and trust that their obedience to the rule of the Society which 
compels them to refuse premiums to articles which they do not 
deem intrinsically worthy, will not deter artists and others, 
unsuccessful now, from sending at another time, when study 
and practice may have improved the one, and good taste aided 
by good fortune may have enabled the others to possess them¬ 
selves of the true treasures of art. 
