The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-12

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annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem me-
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
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
tion, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10Th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready TO receive them.
| I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for The safe-kecpng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of lis
cheers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor 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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been enicredin The Secretarys
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, ffor sale--gving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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 ofstIss grounds and buildings, aud
such clerks as they NAY 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-lhe statement TO he delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, a statement
OF Is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, 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 of planting, mode Of cutivaton. IL an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &C. II
Ncedlc-work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor the age, il 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 ar-
Gle, whatever its merit unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
IN jcgibc hand, and in a style fit at once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations Of the servcra county Socie-
ties are requested and enIoned 10 make out upon
consultation, a report Of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the inn
provements 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 Appropriation. 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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM .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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums.--It is impossible to name in no.
tice 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
somcnto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scopc embI acing
every thing tat 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 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, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art-
ces cup worth \ 5 will be given on the third best
) =. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining denart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2 80 on the third an honor on Inc fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from TO three dollars-lhese 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. A hall will be prepared and assigned parli-
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 It's in name, Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pGr'ments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles ciassed 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 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 may
have their lists Of articles, and the several COM
mttees 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-Frday to gen
eral re-deivery OF articles. The exhibition con
tinung the whole time
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO- the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
! Monday morning of the Fair week
18th The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia
18Th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early evers morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
TO CIV. fIsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers