Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-07-14
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO RI
WISE THE BYLAWS.
To the President and Members ofhe

WISE THE BYLAWS.
To the President and Members ofthe
Agricultural Society Of Charles County:
The undersigned, Committee appointed by
your honorable body to revise and report such
notifications of, and amendments to, the BYLAWS
of said Society, as to them may seem expe-
dent, beg leave to submit the following as their
report:
Your Committee having taken the subject mat
ter committed to them into consideration, and af.
ter the most careful investigation of the By
Laws, are unanimously of the opinion, that, as
they now stand, they are eminently calculated to
promote the successful progress and harmony of
the Society. They, therefore, deem it only ne
cessary to propose slight change of bylaw the
18th, and suggest further change in the mode of
awarding premiums to colts and other young stock,
together with the enactment of two or three addi-
tlonal laws, as comprising all the notifications
and amendments now believed to be desirable to
develope all the anticipated advantages to be de-
rived from the association. The modification
which your Committee would propose to rule the
It'll, is to abolish the restriction therein which re-
stricts the premiums awarded to saddle and car
rage horses to those owned and raised in the
county, exclusively, which necessarily excludes
those members of the association not residing in
the county from the privilege of competing for
these premiums, consequence which your Com
mittee deem unjust and partaking of the spirit of
selfshness, for while we avail ourselves of the con-
tributons of those members, certainly there should
be no disabilities or inequalities imposed on them.
Your Committee would, therefore, propose that
rule 18th be made to read except for those owned
and bred by the person exhibiting the same
This, in the opinion of your Committee, would be
found sufficiently conservative in its operations to
protect the breeding interests of our county, and
at the same time be free from the objections above
urged against the rule as it now stands.
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colts and other stock, your Committee think ought
to be changed. 1t seems to them that the CLASH
flying animals differing SO much in age, as a colt
of one with another of three years old, in the
same class, and requiring the Committee of Award
to determine on their respective merits, with due
reference to difference of age, as involving much
difficulty in forming just decision, and in it's re-
suits invariably prejudicial to the younger speci-
mems exhibited Your Committee would there
fore recommend that they be divided into three
classes, and that premium be given to the best
one, two and three year old, respectively.
Your Committee think it would be desirable
and tend to promote the interests of the Society,
to require every contestant for the premiums Of
fered for the largest yield of agricultural produc-
tions upon given acres of land, to produce to the
appropriate Committee of Award, certificates of
two dIslnterested Witnesses, and in the absence
OF such certificates, then his or her affidavit made
before some competent authority, certifying or
tesl1ylng, as the case may be, to the aggregate
amount of the yield, ascertaned by actual stan
dard measurement and further, that the acre or
acres of land upon which said product or pro-
ducts given had been actually measured by chain
or rope stretched over the saIne allowing 10 square
yards to the acre. Your Committee would further
suggest the expediency of requiring every person
to whom premium shall be awarded for any az
rcultural productions, to hand to the chairman Of
the appropriate Committee of Award a statement,
showing in detail the quantity and variety of the
seed either planted or sown per acre :; the mode
of planting apd seeding, well as cultivating the
same the quantity and kind of manures, as also
the mode of applying the same to the soil the
character of the soil, whether loan, clay, OF
sand.
Your Committee of the opinion, that b,
making it the duty of the Executive Committee tS
arrange and publish the statements in the count,
newspaper much beneficial information on prac
teal agriculture may be disseminated, and the ag
rculturists of our county thereby materially bene
fitted. Your Committee would likewise sugges
the propriety of requiring every person, who pro
: poses to exhibit any article, to furnish the Com
mitee of Reception with correct lists of the arti
cles he or she proposes to exhibit on the day pre-
1 ceding the day of exhibition and further to re
q.irc the Committee of Reception to furnish eacl