The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-06
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an rTUTTyWAV, AHSOCl TION.


The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
Fair have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having ARTICLES LOT exhio-
ton, 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,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeping
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-
on, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sae-givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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 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 ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
M Of pre ratio Of Ian MAJ md
time of planting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c. If
Neede-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, fby 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 style fit at once for the
press.
5lh The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, Q report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
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 appropriation. time OF planting and mod
OF CULTIVATION. Inc means ana measures OF preScr
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral 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. andM :nufacturcrsE Exchange
We request individuals who have 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
premium.
7th Premiums.--lt is impossible to name in no.
tce like this ALL the various articles to which pre-
miums will he 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, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, bracing
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
ia, that all articles Of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
Elements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, a premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
q 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 2. SO on the third an 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 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 parti-
culary 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 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. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whatits in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association
10TH The President upon consultation with
such members he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them theirpespective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classeG 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 enoin
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
mittees 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 gem
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
10Th. The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, 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 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
Il 14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,