The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-13
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annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
| The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
csssary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST 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 for exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
3D. The Association has ample fund, and Will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeping
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF It's
Ctiicers 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 tim 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, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall pc to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
tion shall have first been enteredn the Secrearys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--givihg
to the owner a 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 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, II Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. If
Needle work or Painting,.or any work of Art, the
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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements made out
in Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
! press.
| 5th The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
| ties are requested and enjoned 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 are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes of preparation. time 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ, nufacturersE xc 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.
| It'll. Premiums is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted. However compGehensive
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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion fall 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 AGING
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 this point perhaps
is, that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S 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 3 will be given on the second
best s 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three doars--thcse how
ever, 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 parti-
cuarly 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 is 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 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 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 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, 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
mittees proceed at to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Friday to gem
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations Of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta 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 Biups, Of Athens, Georgia.
, 18th 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 CIV fisltors the opportunity of the accommo-
da'ions ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
, attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided