The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-12

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
crlbing such general rules as they may deem ne
ccssary to aproper management Of the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
tinue openuntil Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when 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 saiekecping
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.
Sd. 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
iOn, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residencc--and price, iffor sale-giying
to the owner q corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
to facilitate the labOrs of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
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, a 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 ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode OF raising, SC. lf
NcedIe-work or Painting, 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 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 legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the servcraI county Socie-
ties requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation, a 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 or arc in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time of planting and mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of prescr-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveraI county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. III Is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ urcrsE TX chanpe
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
hnu rQnln md al, IN
premium.
TIN. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no.
hce like this all, thcyarious articles to which pre-
miums will be granled 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
observe, That it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scOpe, cmbr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN 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, 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 10 will be given on the second best arti-
4 2. SO /; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth s S will be given on the second
best g. so; on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars--thcse, how
eyerarc general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
Sth A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, ncedle-work &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely nc
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 utural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdriments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classcG and arranged in their respective
| departments. III order TO the perfection of this
| arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjon
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
| Tue IreSiueht sha 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 sales--Friday to gen
eral re-dellvery of articles. The exhibition con-
| tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atanta 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 Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia
18th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ hsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
| attendance upon the Fair
1Ath The citizpns IF Atl,n,, h,yo Jod