The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-30
~ SOUTHERN CENTRAL
A c,DIcIrI TJTRAI ASSnHl TION

vs.
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth |
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia +. .
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
crbng such general rules as they may deem ne !
cessary to aproper management of the approaching |
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS. ,
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con !
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as riday or
Saturday the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and will, |
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF Its
Ulcers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to |
give them opportunity to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, arc
appointed committee whose duty it shall he to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition shall have first been eneredn the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and In such order
as to facilitate the labors of the several committees
on premiums +; and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary for
the projection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
4th There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
| exhibition-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
alnr tfitpal
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. III
Needle work or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor the age, if by children or very old persons
tie value uses SC. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,
visitors patrons and members all will take notice,
that q premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and. explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style TIT at once Tor the
press
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enlomed TO make OUT upon
consultation, q report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress OF being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes appropriation. time of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out IN the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultural andM nufac turersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
IA for oil and al for 70
a premium.
It'll. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
, mums will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
still be many articles of merit offered which would
not be embraced in it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
Observe hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful in business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
IL that on all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plcments and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, n premium of cup
worth ! 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cIes cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
: =. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 9 50 on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from TO three dollars-these, how
evera ARE general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| Sth A hall will be prepared and ssgned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments Of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary TO proper management.
9th. The facilities of getting TO this central
point induce us to invite, and to expect the pre-.
sence and contributions Of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with US in making
this institution indeed what It'll in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call TO his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists OF the
articles olassed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations will here repeat, and enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9th and 10th of August, so that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
| MONDAY morning, the committee or reception tnay
have their lists OF articles, and the several COM
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Priday 10 gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tnuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
! foregoing rules, will be published at Atlantic early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
| l3th The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visitors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dntons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the far.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuITIyAToR and to pro-