The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-11

annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem nc
ceesary to proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GEsERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds aud Buildings viii be-
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and CON
nue open until Friday evening. Ii is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground early Friday OF
Saturday, the 9Th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
20. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for The saie-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands OF ITS
officers and committees, (tbe owner taking check
lor 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 Nj Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton shall have first been eneredin the Secretary's
book or registry--lhen labelled with the owners
| name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as TO facilitate the abors Of the several committees
| on premiums and also to employ such police and
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--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
maker. If horticultural or Agricultural Products
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. II 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 very old persons
tie value, uses, Sc Since this is She most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions Of the Society
visitors, patrons aud members all will take notice.
that a 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 several county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements 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 OF preparation. 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 a Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ ,nufacturers 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
tha,r, thnraf pru oIa n, r.
a premium.
| It'll. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
ce 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 1t, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles mightbe construed by
someinto 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 acing
every thing that is Ingenious or useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sa le
or exhibition, invited TO come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perha DIS
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-
&
| SO. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cies OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments a cup worth S will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from TO three dollars-these, how
eyerare general regulations, and in particular
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-
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 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. We 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 can 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 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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
| reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted TO sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition CON
tnung the whole time.
1lth Any alterations Of or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta 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.
i 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 nsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
18th The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters foF Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business OF
the fair. N.f flntst