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ANNUAL meeting n AE4A6t2 OeOrgla
The COMMITTEES charged with The duty OF pres
cribing such general ruIes ~ they may deem me-
cessary to proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENxRAL REGULATIONS.
Isl 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 exhbi-
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.
ID 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 its
oficers and committees, Che 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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
tion, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, if for sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then class-
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 will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibiton--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
makar IL Hort in ultural nr A
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time Of fplanting mode ofcuitivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode Of raising, &c. IL
Needlc-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 &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 ak-
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 i'm
provements in farming, tilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products Of their countless
the modes Of preparation. 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
SouthernAgricultura and NJ nu ufacturers Ex change
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
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 a no
ce 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 init, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto exclusion OF all articles unannounced,
The Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended TO give the action OF
the Association the very widestsscope, embI acne
every thing that is ingenious or useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sa lie
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
il, 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 l0 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
50. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments ia cup worth IS 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 dolIars--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 e-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 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
tins institution indeed what is N name Southern
Central Agrc uItura Association
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his ald 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
articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thus
arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and cnjon
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
mltees proceed at once to the examination of art-
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-devery Of articles The exhibition CON
tinulng the whole time
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annua! 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.
]3th. 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
Oriff'n, Marietta Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
70 give visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
da'ions 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,