The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-06
OUTHERN CENTRAL
A 4: n Gf,UTu .TnTRAI. ANN(DC1 AIION

GENERAL REGULATIoks
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings WIZ DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinuc open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirabc that all persons having articles Tor exhbi
ton, shall be on the ground early as friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittcc will be there ready to receive them. :,
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, ana WILL
in all cases become responsible for the safe-kecping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close OF the + ar, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time 10
give them opportunity to recover their goods, ana
| to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil the
Association.
3D. Mark 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 eneredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sae-givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments and in 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 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 of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising SIC. 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
the value, uses, &C. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information 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 legble hand, and in a style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the servera county Socie-
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, tillage draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
| adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes appropriation. time planting and mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
| Agricultural memoirs from the servcral 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
SouthernAgrcultural and Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus Of
choice articles, OF who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
| 7th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no.
ticc like this ali, the various articles to which pre-
NUNS will be granted However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
of hp of ofI. ;ch
not be embraced in it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles mi ht be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended TO give the action OF
the Association tho very wdest'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
or art. All them 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 oil 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-
clcs cup worth IS 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 depart
mcnts cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 50. so; on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars-thcse, how
eyer,arc general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed arc requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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-
n,,I .l<,,tu r
citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles casse9 and arranged in their respective
departments. Ill 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 commttee'of reception may
have their lists Of articles, and the several
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
: reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen.
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions to, thu
e foregoing rules, will be published at Atanta early
: Monday morning of the Fair week.
10Th. The annua! Grafton will be made or
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
J, by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
J, 18th. The Committee have the prospect o
i making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
N Georgia Railroads., run accommodation carr
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tt
>. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
l, to Civ 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo
datlons ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
r, attendance upon the Fair.
n. l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
ii and others engaged in the aborious business o
the fair.
10 18TH The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULrivAroR, and to pro
cure as far as practicable their publication in thu
: weekly papers of this and the adjoining States
"a BY order of the Committee OF A .rangeme ts