Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12


Exhibitors will be required to have theil
stock entered upon the Secretary's Books, al
the office before they are place in the enclos
ure, when they will receive from the Secretary
duplicate card containing the number anC
class of their entry.
They must also be careful to make their en-.
tries in the proper class, and see that theil
cards are placed on the animals or articles, in
order to facilitate and lessen the labor of the
Judges.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The Executive Committee during the Fair,
is composed of the Board of Managers, and
the members thereof will be present at theil
respective departments.
The Executive Committee will take every
precaution in their power for the preservation
of all articles on exhibition, after their arrival
and Arrangement on the ground, but will not
be responsible for loss or damage.
No person, other than the officers of the
Society, the judges and exhibitors of stock,
and invited guests, will be permitted to enter
the ring while stock is being exhibited; those
will have places assigned them by the EXecu-
tive Committee.
The Chief Marshal will have general super
vision of the grounds, and will give exhibitors
and committees such information as may be
necessary to carry into effect the order of the
exhibition.
Forage for stock will be provided on the
grounds at the lowest possible rates.
ENTRIES IN sPEED-RING, BOOK NO. s.
Entries IN Wednesdays contests may be
made up to 10 o'clock, NJ. of that day, and for
all other contests in the speed-ring, the en-
tries must be made by 10 o'clock of the day
of each contest after that hour the books will
be closed.
All contests in the speed-ring to be governed
by the rules of the National Trotting Associ.
atien," except as may be otherwise ordered by
the Board.
The Board reserves the right to change the
programme or order of exhibition, from day tC
day, for reasons satisfactory to the Board. Z
Inspection of the Secretary's entry books
by any one proposing to make entries, or any
one else, will not be permitted.
ANY exhibitor who criticiseS or uses insult.
ing language to the awarding committee OF
Judges, on account of their ruling, shall be ex-
PEELED from the ring by order of the judges
and shall not be entitled to exhibit !; but, on
apology being made, may be excused.
- ENTRY FEES.
No fees will be charged in any department
except in the speed-ring, and that to be 10 pei
cent. on the purse.
For the purpose of encouraging a more ex-
tensive exhibition, the Society offers for the
ensuing Fair a very liberal premium list, and
has adopted the Free Entry System, except
in the speed-rings. Premium holders, except
in entry book No s, will be charged twenty
per cent upon the payment of premiums.
~ RI TO JUDGES. I
Every morning during the exhibition the
Judges on stock examined the previous day
may have the ring half an hour for the pur-
pose of reviewing.
No premiums will be awarded to unsound
animals of any description, nor on articles not
meritorious.
No premiums will be awarded unless the
articles merit them, and where there is but
one exhibitor, although he may exhibit several
animals or articles in a class, only one premium
will be awarded, and that to be the first OF
otherwise, according to merit.
No person who is an exhibitor can act as
Judge in the class in which he exhibits.
When animals or articles are not deemed
worthy of a premium, the judges will not
make an award, but premiums will be award
ed whether there will be much, little or no
competition, provided the articles exhibited
are meritorious and the rules of the Society will
allow the same.
Z. The Executive Committee will be composed
of the Board of Managers, to whom sil recon-
mendations for Premiums or Diplomas will be
made by committees, when not specially pro-
vided for in the prize list. Their reports
should be handed to the Secretary by 3 o'clock
on Friday. I .-.. .-
COMMITTEES.
The awarding committees for the several
classes will be appointed Immediately after
the entry books are closed.
1t is made the duty of Superintendents and
Marshals of the several departments to assist
the awarding committees in finding the articles
on exhibition and see that none shall be over
looked.
The members of awarding committees will
report themselves at the Office of the Secreta-
nv at II o'clock on Wednesday morning, when
thev will receive the books and instructions
from the Superintendents of the several de-
partments. And they will make their reports
at any time not later than Friday at 3 o'clock.
On the second day Of the Fair the names
of committees will be called at their respective
departments, when they will proceed to
the duties assigned them, and return their
reports to the same department.
NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS.
Members of the same family will not be
permitted to compete for the premium on theI
same kind of articles, without paying an ad-
ditional member fee.
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