Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-10-21
BYLAWS AND REGULATIONS.

BYLAWS AND REGULATIONS.
|. That no person who is not a member, except
females and mechanics, shall be entitled TO a pre-
MUM.
9. That no premium shall be awarded for any
thing, except to the real bona fde owner thereof
g. That no premium of the highest grade shall
be awarded more than once for the same thing,
except agricultural implements and machinery.
a. That no premium shall be awarded Tor any
article of domestic manufacture, except to the
person who wrought or directed the manufacture
thereof within two years prior to its exhibition.
S. That no premium shall be awarded for any
article of agricultural product completed more
than one year prior to its exhibition.
| 6. That no premium for draft horses shall be a
warded for horses generally used as carriage
horses.
T. That no premium for carriage or saddle hor-
ses shall be awarded except for those owned and
bred by the person exhibiting the same.
| 18th, 9th and 10th bylaws omitted
IL. That in all cases, the decisions of the seve
raj committees. touching the award Of premiums:
shall be final and conclusive
| y. That all animals having obtained the
highest premium for which they have been enter
ed, and being excluded by previous resolution
from subsequent PREMIUM if still the best, shall
be entitled 10 certificate Of highest merit.
| 13. That the formers of this county, generally,
be and they are hereby invited, for purposes Of
sale at the Apnuol Fairs of this Society, to bring
SC. ,-and that the third day of said Annual Fair
or Exhibition be fixed for the sale Of stock exh-
|bited for that purposes and that said Stock be eX
hibited at the risk and charge of the owners:
! IA. That every contestant for premiums offered
for the largest yield of agricultural productions
upon given acres of land, be required TO produce
to the appropriate Committee of Award, certiil-
Gates of two disnterested witnesses, and in the
absence Of such certificates, then his or her affi-
davlt, made before some competent authority,
certifying or testfying, Gas the case may be,) TO
the aggregate amount of the yield as ascertained
10y actual standard measurement and further,
that the acre or acres of land upon which said
product or products given had been actually mea-
sured by chain or rope stretched over the same,
alloWIng 70 square yards to the acre.
Is. That every person 10 whom premium shall
be awarded for any agricultural productions, be
required TO hand 10 the Chairman Of the appropri
ale Committee of Award a statement, showing in
detail the quantity and variety of the seed eitner
. lplanted or soWn per acre; the mode of planting
the seed, as we'll as cultvatiDg the same; the
lquantity and kind of manures, as also the mode Of
applying the same TO the soil; the character o.
the soil, whether loan, clay, or sand.
) I6 That 1t shall be the duty of the Executive
} Committee to arrange and publish in the county
newspaper the statements required to be made b.,
the above 18th bylaw.
} II. That every person who proposes 10 exhibit
any article, be required to furnish the Committed
of Reception with correct lists of the articles he
or she proposes 10 exhibit, on the day preceding
the day of exhibition.
H. That the Committee of Reception furnish
, each Chairman of the several Committees of A
ward with correct Isis of all articles 10 be eXhib
lied before his committee, with the names Of thu
, exhibitors.
10. That each Chairman of the several Com
, mittees Of Award furnish the Editor of the Por
, Tobacco Times with correct lists Of the severa
articles exhibited before his committee, togethe
with the names Of the exhibitors
20. That the Executive Committee employ SOM
suitable person to act in the capacity Of Police
whose duty it shall be TO watch over and protec
, all articles brought for exhibition by ladies.
. 81. That the Executive Committee have au
thority 10 determine, defnitively, upon the RICH
of any article exhibited to receive premiur
where any contest arises as to whether the by
2 laws Of the Society excludes the same or not
90. That all articles exhibited, and not include
in the published list Of premiums, be classified an
. arranged by the Committee Of Reception, and
list thereof handed to the Executive Committee
whose duty it shall be to allot to them commit
tee TO be styled the :'Committee on Articles No
, Enumerated said committee 10 alot and appor
| ton the amount of premiums TO which each ar
: ticle Of IFS class may be entitled out of gros
; be appropriated for the purpose by the Executive
, Committee.
90. That no special premium be allowed 10 an,
, article already referred TO Committee of Award
and TO which it was not entitled in fair competi
ton.
"a. That none except the membes Of this So
, ciety and females shall be admitted to our Annua
Cents for Ticket Of admission, to be received b.
some fit person appointed by the Executive Com
m't'ee'