The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-19

annual meeting vt Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GEsERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds aud buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. IL is therefore de-
sIrabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early ss Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th Augsnt when Com
mittcc will be there ready to receive them
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepDg
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of its
cheers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close OF the Far, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time To
give them OPT ortunty TO recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Associa
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard. and James M Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
iton, sha have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, If for saie--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the labors Of the several committees
on premiums aud also to employ such police and
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
Gases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion--thc statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, ii a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinventoD, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcultyaton, IL an Animal,
the pedigree 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 or 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 o premium i'll 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 Socic-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress OF being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes ofpreparatiop. 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 scrveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. Ii is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7tb. Premiums ut is impossible to name in no
tice 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 mightbe construed by
someinto an 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, embr acine
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
| piemens, and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any of the departments, a premium of a cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
j =. 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 2. SO on the third honor; on The fourth,
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dol,ars-these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees viii be
permitted indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly TO the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair il absolutely ne
cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities Of getting 20 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
i departments. In order to the perfection of thl'
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees OF
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make thei
r reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
erol re-delivery of articles. The exhibition Goa
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, thu
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanq earl,
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col John BiIlups, of Athens, Georgia.
18Th. The Committee have the prospect o
making arrangements with the Macon, State am
D Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, .
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ visitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while i
attendance upon the Fair.
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provide
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
b and others engaged in the aborous business @
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