The southern press., 1851-06-30
sOUTHERN GENITAL
T. AG60Cl ALTON

annual meeting ~ Atlanta Uoorgta
The COMMITTEES 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
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnueopen until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
In all cases. become responsible for the sate-keepng
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 10 recover their goods, and
TO prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment Of the
Association.
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-
tion, shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resIdence--and price, il for salc--gving
to the owner corresponding card-and then classi-
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the abors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
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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
exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine statement
Of is powers and uses, COST time of ofinyenton, 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 ofcultvation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, sc. IL
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 a style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties requested and enjoned to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements in farming, tillage, drainil5 and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress Of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
Of cultivation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the seryeral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society. la
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and nufacturersEx 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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums.--lt 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 1t, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto 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 wdest'scope empI acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to come. The onl,
regulation further necessary on 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, a premium of cup
worth ! 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth : will be given on the third best
:. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
ces of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
menis cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 5 = SO; on the third an honor on the fourth,
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
everarc general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees viii be
permitted, indeed are requested, 10 vary the rule
sth. 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
10 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 tits 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 aud 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 thus
arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
these regulations, viii here repeat, and enioin
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 nav
have their lists of articles, and the several com
mi'tees proceed at once 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 gen
eral re-dehvery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tinulng the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
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Monday morning of the Fair week
18Th. The annual Grafton viii be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
| by Col. John Blllups, 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 nsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided