The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-29
SOUTH ERN CEN r RAJ
ASSOCIATION

dutiuai meeting AT atldnta UcorKta
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 be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. IL is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhbl
ton, shall be the ground as early as Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and viii
IN all cases, become responsible for the sae-keepig
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of It's
cheers 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
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 for exh-
ition, sha have first been enteredn the Secretary S
book or iegistry-then labelled with the owners
pane and resdence--and price, iffor salc-giyNg
| t0the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and III such order
to facilitate the abors 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 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, if Machine, statement
of is powers and uses COST time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. Ii horticultural or Agricultural Products,
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time Of planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c, IL
Needle-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, 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 legible hand, and in a style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
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 planting 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 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 NJ .nufacturersE 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
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
18th. 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 an 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 widesl'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious or useful in business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is, 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 q cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best art-
Giles 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 depar.
ments cup worth SIS 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 doars--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.
9th. A 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-
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 in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members az he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| psFrments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
| articles classeC and arranged in their respective
| departments. 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 on 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 Atlanto 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 BiIlups, Of Athens, Georgia
l3h. 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, 'isitors 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 far
l, H1a Il Ill.