The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-09

day oil August next, which ~ The DAY OF the MIN
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
oribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper manage of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for 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.
ID. The Association has an ample fund.- and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the saekeeping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
oliicers 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 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 Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
tion sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-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 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 win positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
cxhibiton--lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time ofnvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
IN akRr f or AUr IN ral
mode of preparation of land and SOIL manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultvation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock age, mode of raising, &c. II
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 will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
Illustrative and explanatory Statements made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the seryeral county Soce-
ties requested and enoined to make out, upon
consultation, q 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 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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ nufacturersE Elk change
We request individuals who have surplus Of
choice articles, OF who make them for sale such
choice seeds, machines stock, &c---to carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, I hat il is intended 10 give the action Of
the Association the very wdest'scope, embI 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
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 a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth will be given, on the third best
2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
mens cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor On miner and misce aneous articles
premiums from one TO three dol,ars--ihese, how
ever, 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 parti-
fheir
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 lis in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
pdr'menis, 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, win here repeat, and enjoin
upon all 10 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
nttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
cies, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday viii be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-dehvery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions TO- the
foregoing rules, will be published of Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
I'm. The annua! Grafton will be made on
wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col John Blllups, OF Athens, Georgia
/ lSh. 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,
70 CIV nsiiors the opportunity of the accommo-
dntions 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.
and others engaged in the lehorious nusp ess or