The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-25

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
| The 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. It is therefore de-
slrabe that all persons having articles Tor exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mhtce will be there ready to receive them
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
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 to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotecte after the adjournment OF the
Association.
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty shall DC to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
iton, sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residcnce--and price, iffor sale-glvihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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
eXhbiton--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvcntion, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products,
Ia
time of planting, mode ofcultivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c. If
Ncede-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, Or the amount of
labor; the age, ifby children or 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 a 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 in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enioincd to make ont, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their committees
the modes preparation. time ofplanting and mod
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. and acturersE 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
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t 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
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
| or exhibition, 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 In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
! in any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth III will be given; on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth S will be given, on the third best
4 2. 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 ION 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 dollars-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 hail 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 TO this central
point induce us'o 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 win unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can 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
articles casscG and arranged in their respective
departments Lii 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 may
have their lists of articles, and the several COM
mttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes--Friday to gen.
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to- the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlantic early
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 Bilups, 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. fsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business Of
the fair