The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-18


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 VIII be
opened for visitors Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening. II Is therefore de
sirable that all persons having articles Tor 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 ample fund, and VIII,
in all cases become responsible for the saie-keePng
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 Far, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time TO
give them opportunity to recover their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil The
| Association.
! Sd. Max 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 Tor exhi-
tion sha have first been enteredm the Secretarys
book or regislry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sae-givihg
to the owner corresponding card-and 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 o! articles.
4th There will positively be required in all
| cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibtion--thc statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, if a 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,
m oIp off rppn afin of land nd and
time of planting, mode ofcutivation If am Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, Sc II
Needle-work or Painting, or any work of Art the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, ifby children 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements made out
in egib]c hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
lies requested and en- oined TO make out, upon
consultations, 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 are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time planting 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
andMs Observation-Disclosures
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
a premium
7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in no
tice like this ali, 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 an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
1 observe, that it is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very widest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious or 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
| plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth III will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
| ~. 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 second
best 8 9. SO on the third an honor on the fourth
| ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one 10 three dollars--these how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
| or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| 8th hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
lie NTH
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 usto 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
this institution indeed what It's in name Southern
| Central Agric ultural Association
lVlh. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
| these regulations, will here repeat and enion
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
'e'iN. o"oi. appoint MS committees on
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
| have their lists Of articles, and the several COM
mlttees 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--Frday to gen
eral redellvery Of articles. The exhibition CON
| tinuing the whole time
18th. 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,
! 10y Col. John BIllups, OF Athens, Georgia.
| l3th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late III the snernoon to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ 'istors the opportunity of the aecommo-
dauons 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 aborous business of