The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-16
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INC Wock omUFaCIu8 wednesday, tu6
day Of August next, which is the day OF the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crIbing such general rules as they may deem me-
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 on Monday morning, aud con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
slrabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
uon, shall be on the ground as early % Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready TO receive them.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
cticers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor 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 M Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ition, shall have first been eneredn the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then clsssi +
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
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 ehey 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
exhibition-the 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 of cultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c. Ii
Ncedle-work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
length of time bestowed it, or the amount of
labor; the age, 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 art-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustratiyeand explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties requested and enioined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tiage, draining and manu-
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes appropriation. time ofplanting and mod.
of cultivation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the scrveral county
societies would make up an amount Of valuable
information to DO sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ Manufacturers xchange
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
premium.
7th. Premiums 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion ofal articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association 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 to 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 I'm
VitLicHts, anu OF HNtullOfs
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles 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.
ments cup worthv5 will be given on the second
best 8 2. 50 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
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 10 this central
point induce us.to invite, and to expect the pre-
sencc 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, what il is in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association. /.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he-can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdriments, and TO these committees 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
lbS'e ''SUatiohf, VIII ufIt Itptdl, ana cflolD
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
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--Friday to gen
eral re-de6very OF articles. The exhibition Goa
| tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week
l2h. The annual 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
18Th. 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 Osiors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations 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,