The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-12
eOUTHERN CEN T RAJ
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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 VIII DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening II is thereiore ae
sirable that all persons having articles LOT oxhpi
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 an ample fund, and WILL
all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
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 it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretary's
book Iegistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
as facilitate the labors oft 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.
| Attn. 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 lime of invention and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode Ofcultivation. If an Animal
the pedigree stock, age mode Of raising, sc. 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 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 egiblc hand, and in style fit at once for the
press. tio
9Th. The delegations ofthe serycral county Socie-
ties arc requested and enloncd to make out, upon
consultation, report OF The present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements in farming, tillage, 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 culivaton. The means and measures of preser-
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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM Manufacturers 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 salc and not alone for exhibition for
premium:
7th. Premiums. 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-
mlums 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 widestsscope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious 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, all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
| pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth VS. will be given, on the third best
! 81 SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best ' 2. so; on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor On miner and misce aneOus articles
premiums from one 10 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 hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly 10 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'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, whatitis in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
nth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can callto his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
Ptrtmenfs, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
Articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments III order to the perfection of thus
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
| ~ = i0oiue"' snail appoint MS committees on
Monday morning, the committee of reception NAV
have their lists of articles, and the several COM
mittees 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 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 Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2ih. The annua! Grafton will he made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding The reports of committees,
by Col. John Blilups, 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 dsi,ors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations OF the 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 Iaborious business of