The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-22


annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee 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 Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as FRIDAY or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
3D. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the sae-keeping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
cheers 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.
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
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, II for sale-glVng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed an arranged by departments, and in such order
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.
9TH 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, if a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses cost, time of Invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
alyar II,,f
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c If
Needework 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 &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 i'll style fit at for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties requested and en- Joined to make out upon
a report Of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tlage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time Of planting aud 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. and NJ, nufacturers Elk change
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
a premium.
7th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no
ce 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-
mlums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto 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'scope, embI acing
every thing that 6 ingenious or useful In business
art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this rops peshaps
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 arti-
Giles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
= so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best 2. 50 on the third an honor; on the fourth
ID honor Oa miner and iscelaneous articles
premiums from ons 10 three dolIars-these, how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, 10 vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly TO the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, Bsedle-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 usto 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, whatits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural 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-
pdrtments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
Al ucles 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 enjoin
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 nay
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 wall be deFoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-deliyery Of articles. The exhibition CON
unuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations Of or additions TO, the
rflla I,.I., Al.
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 Blups, Of Athens, Georgia
l3th. 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-
dauons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
ldth. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the aborous business of
the fair