The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-18

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne-
cessary TO aproper management OF the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds aud Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning. and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
uon, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mit'ee viii be there ready TO receive them.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safekeeping
o. articles which may be placed in the hands Of lis
1ricers and committees, (tle owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
i give them OPT orubty TO recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
| Assoc iaion
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition, sha have rsl been enteredin the Secretarys
book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sac--giving
TO the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the labos 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
exhbition--lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
oil 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 ofcdtivaton. Ii an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising &c. 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 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 " i'll not be awarded to any art-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit ut once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
Ties are requested and cnioned to make cut. 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
Of cultivation The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servera county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society,"
9th. IL is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ, nufacturersE xchange
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.
It'll Premiums is impossible to name in no
ce like this ali, 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 IL, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore The announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat II is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widesl'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious or 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
~, that on all articles Of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plemcns, and valuable improvements or inventions
IN any OF the departments, premium OF a cup
worth 10 VIII be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth SIS will be given on the third best
So. so F; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 50 viii be given; on the second
best 2. 81 on the third an honor on The fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one TO three dol.ars-these, how
eyerare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, TO vary the rule
sth hall viii be prepared and assigned parii
cuiarly 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 70 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, whattis in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
iuth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign TO them ther respective de-
pdriments, and to these committees so appointed
The committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
hucles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, viii HIRE repeat, and enioin
upon oil to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
uiual uie Sun ana lUth 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 arti-
cIes, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
era re-deliyery Of articles. The exhibition coa-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2tt. The annua! 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.
l3h. 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
Grliin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to CIV rsItors the opportunity of the accommo-
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4,h. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged in the aborous business of