The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-23
SOUTHERN ENTRAL

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 Dc
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for e1hib-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee 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 unprotected after the adjournment Of the
| Association.
3d. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition sha' have first been cnteredin the Secretarys
book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-givihg
| to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
as to facilitate the abors of the several committees
| on premiums and also to employ such police and
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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
| exhibition-the 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
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcultvatiOn. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, SIC. If
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 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 legble hand, and in a style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several countless Of the i'm
provements in farming, tillage draining and manu-
ring, which have been are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
SouthernAgrcultur and ufacturers Exchange
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
tbn~ f,ra IN r.. 4
| a premium.
! It'll. Premiums 1T is impossible to name in no
tice 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 in it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre.
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto all exclusion Of all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally t
observe, hat it is intended to give the action O
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sal,
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
s, that, on all articles of the highest merit in thu
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural Inn
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments premium of cul
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti
cles cup worth will be given, on the third hes
3 2. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
, cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the secont
best 2. SO; on the third 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 cas-
or cases Of peculiar merit the committees will b.
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule
: 9th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. The,
are cordially invited to attend Their assstanc,
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management
9Th. The facilities of getting 10 this centra
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 it is in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation will
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoin
committees and assign to them their respective de
Pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of tn,
aiucles classed and arranged in their respectv,
departments. Iii order to the perfection of thu
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees or
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art
ces, and thereby have ample time to make theii
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday VIII be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delvery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2th. The annua! Grafton will be made or
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
18th The COMMITTEES 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 'lsitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
l4h. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged i'm the laborious ousiness n