The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-14

Jhe Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to a 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
tinue open until Friday evening 1t IS therefore de-
sirabIe that all persons having articles Tor exhibit
tion shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
| I'd. The Association has an ample iund and Will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safekeePng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF Its
officers 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 'nclr sooas' ana
| 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 nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ton shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or regisry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor aale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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, az shall be necessary for
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
exhibiton-,he 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. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If an ANIMAL
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising SIC. 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 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 egible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and cnjoined to make out, upon
consultation, q report Of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the i'm
provements in farming, tiiage, drainilg and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of theI countless
the modes preparation. time 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. andM B.. nufacturers 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
a premium.
It'll. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
still bic 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
somcinto an exclusion OF all articles unannounced,
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that il is intended to give the action OF
| ihesAssociaton the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited 10 come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is that on all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
pemens, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 4 5 will be given on the third best
So so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
mcnts cup worth s S will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one TO three doars-these how
everare general regulations and in particular case
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 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. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what it's in name Southern
Central Agric ullural Association.
| 10th. The President upon q consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrfments, 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 enon
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 to the examination of arti
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday vii! be devoted TO sales-Frday to gen.
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
| tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, Will be published Mt Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
lDtf. The annua! orntjon will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
| by Col. John Blilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
i i3th. The Committee have the prospect Of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georga Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Grfhn. 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
. lath. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comiostaoie quarters for Committees and Officers,
h in he t.to II