The southern press., 1851-09-05
UTHERN CEN TRIAL
ASSOCIATION.

day OF August next, which is the day OF the hfti
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with The duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management OF the approachin,
FAIR, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will BIZ
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con
tlnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi
llon, shall be on the ground early Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
"a. The Association has an ample fund, and will
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands Of lis
clhcers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor 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 amy 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, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ion, shall have first been enteredn the Secretary s
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale---giying
TO the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fled and arranged by departments and in such order
as to facilitate the lab0rs Of the several committees
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary for
the protection 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, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition-ihe statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
OF Is powers and uses, cost time of inv and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time ofplantiDg, mode ofcultivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode of raising, &c. Ii
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 very old persons
tie value, uses, &c. 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 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 fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report Of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
proyements in farming, tllage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes sofpreparation. 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 IL is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultural and ,nufacturers Elk change
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th Premiums Sit is impossible to name in no.
tce like this ALL the various articles to which pre-
miums 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 an exclusion of all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widestsscope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is, that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
pements, and valuable Improvements or inventions
IN any OF the departments, premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 4 will be given on the third best
2. SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 3. SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
| premiums from one TO three dollars-these how
general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
A hall mill lo,1 4
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 il is in name Souihe
Central Agric ultural Association.
luth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign 10 them their respective de-
pdrtments, and TO these committees so appointed
The committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classed 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 enioin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may pe received ana 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 of reception may
have their lists of articles and the several COM
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Erday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, viii be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual oraton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John BIlups, OF Athens, Georgia.
l3b. 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, 10
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations 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 fair.
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