The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-21

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
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening Ii is therefore de-
slrabie that all persons having articles for exhib-
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.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and viii,
in all cases become responsible for the saiekeeping
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF It's
officers and committees, the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close OF the FAR, 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
Association
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M Calhoun, are
appointed acommittee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as TO facilitate the abors Of the several committees
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, a 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 ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &C. 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 or very old persons
tie value, uses, sc. 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 style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes ofpreparation. 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 Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ ,nufacturersEx Exchange
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
a premium. ~
9TH. Premiums.--It is impossible to name in no
uce 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall 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 useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
Isl that, on 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 a cup
Giles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
50 so; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
Giles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
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 miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three doars--these 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.
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
In many departments of the fair is absolutely me-
cessary to proper management
9Th The facilities Of getting 10 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 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
aucles ciassed and arranged in their respective
departments, In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, win here repeat, and enioin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
. y o'iu uiintStu oii fiudy anu SAT
urday the 9Th and 10th of August so that when
me PRESIDENT shall appoint his committees on
MONDAY morning, the committee Of reception NAV
have their lists Of articles, and the several COM
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, 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-
tinuing the whole time
nth. Amy alterations of, or additions 10, 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
i3th The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, TO 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.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,