The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-12


Inc Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 apropcr management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tlnuc open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sifable that all persons having articles for exhibit
tlon, shall be ON the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
"a. The Association has ample fund, and will,
10 all cases, become responsible for the safekeepng
OF 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 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
Assoc iation.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition, sha have first been eneredn the Secretary
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then class-
ned and arranged by departments, and in such order
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 protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need ia the arrangement
and labelling Of articles.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, II Machine, statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time ofnvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
mode Of preparation of land and SOIL manure and
time ofpantng, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode of raising, SIC. If
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 she 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, mnde out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been 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 amount of valuable
information TO be sent out III the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ snufacturersEx Exchange
We reques' 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 Premiuns--It is impossible to name in no
tce like this az. the various0rticles TO which pre-
NUNS will be gsanted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
still be many articles Of merit red which would
not be embraced IN IL, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefor. the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an excluaion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widestsscope, embracing
every thing that isngenious useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
IL, that all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
worth III will be gwen on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth will be given on the third best
z. 81 on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth s 5 will be given /; on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars-thcse. how
are general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, TO vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned par,i-
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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whatit in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their Irrespective de-
pdriments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
al ucles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order TO the perfection Of thus
Arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enioiu
upon All 10 Jake notce 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 OF reception NAV
have their lists of articles, and the several COM
mitees proceed at once to the examination of nrti
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday viii be devoted TO sales-Fridav 10 zen
eral re-deivery Of articles The exhibition con
tnung the whole time
llta, Any alterations Of, or additions 20, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlan,a early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2th. The annual 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.
l3u' The Committee have tho prospect Of
mak'ng arrangements with the Macon, Biats and
Georgia Railroads, to RON accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ hsltors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
iith, The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the lahonous business Of
the fair.
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