The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-08-18

ART. LIST. Competitors for premiums must
be owners of the articles exhibited, residents
OF the County, and members of this society.
ART g There shall be but one individual
from the same town, or ward, on any com
mitee for awarding premiums, except it be
necessary in filling vacancies, and no person
shall act in any case where he is directly or
! Indirectly Interested.
| ART g. Stock and articles competing for
. emium, must be entered in the name OF
the BONA fIpE owners thereof, and all grain,
! fruit, vegetables, dairy products and domes-
F., tic manufactures, must have been raised and
made, or caused to have been made by the
exhibitors thereof, or some member OF his o..
her family.
| ART. 4. Animals and articles that have
taken first premiums at previous exhibitions
will not be allowed TO compete in the same
class except for diploma.
ARr. 3. An animals entitled to compete
for premiums shall have been kept and own
ed in the county, by the person presenting
the same at least two months previous to the
annual Fair in year.
Art. g. All animals and articles intended
for exhibition must be recorded i'm the book
kept for that purpose by the Clerk of the
Fair, on or before two o'clock OF the first day
of the Fair, who will deliver the necessary
labels with the name and place of residence
of the exhibitor attached to each article.
Art. 7. Premiums will not be awarded or
paid ON animals or articles of inferior merit
although there may be no competition.
Art. s. Persons who are namad as Judges
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to serve as such, are expected to notify the
Secretary in writing, at their earliest con-
venience, that their place may be filed.
Art. 9. Competitors for premiums in Ag-
ricuture, shall, previous to the delivery of
any premium which may be awarded, deliy-
err to the Secretary of the Society, an accu-
rate description of the process in preparing
the soil (including quantity and quality of
manure applied in raising the crops or feed
ing the animal, with view of accurately ex-
hihiting the net profits thereof and shall
make affidavit to the same
Art. 10 Previous to the annual Fair in
each year, the Board of Managers shall have
power and it shall be their duty to make all
necessary arrangements for holding the same
and to procure some distinguished person to
shall he designated. 1t shall also be their
duty to see that the grounds are properly
protected, and the various shade and orna-
mental trees adjoining said grounds, saved
from all undue tlespass or rude molestation.
Art. IL. Any person who shall knowingly
violate the regulations Of the Society, or shall
,ca to obtain premium by false pretcnses,
shall be excluded from competition.
Art. II. Premiums awarded and not called
for on or before the annual meeting in Janu-
AIRY, will be considered rs donations to the
Society.
Art. Is. Each member of the Society shall
receive a members card of admission, with
his name written thereon, which shall admit
no person except himself and members of his
family under eighteen years of age, and
which shall he exhibited to the doorkeeper on
each occasion Ofentrance to the Fair grounds.
He shall also be entitled to enter any stock
or article for exhibition
Art. IA. Cattle and horses NAV he re-
moved IT the close OF the second dav by per
mission Of the Board of Managers, but all
other articles must be left until the conclu-
sion of the Fair. JOHN W. HEDRICK, Pres.
VIM. l.. ORR, Sec'y.