The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-22

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 REGyLAroNs-
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings WIZ DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana coh
tinue open until Friday evening IL Is ihereiore ae
srable that all persons having articles i9r eAiipi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as FFtoay vi
Saturday the 9th and 10th August wheh Com-
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
3D. The Association has ample fund, ana WILL
in all cases become responsible for the saie-keepng
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF lis
officers and committees, (the owner taking cnech
for the same,) until the close OF the ar, 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 Caihouh, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exhi
ition, sha, have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor saie-givihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then ciassi-
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such order
as to facilitate the abors OF the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary Tor
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
9TH There will positively be required, in all
cases q 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. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultyaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock age, mode OF raising, &c. Ii
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, Sc 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 moi be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egibIe hand, and in style fit al once for the
press.
5th, The delegations OF the several county Socie
ties are requested and enloined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
proyemenls 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 OF planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility OF lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral 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. and N; MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, OF who make them for sale such
choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for salc and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in ano-
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, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope embI acing
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 this point perhaps
Isl 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, a premium OF cup
worth : 10 will be given; the second best arti-
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 depart
ments cup worth s s will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from TO three dolIars-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-
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 centra
point induce us4to invite, and to expect the pre-.
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10TH The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 classec and arranged in their respective
departments. LII order to the perfection of this
| arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enioin
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
mlttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, 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-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
18th. The annua! 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.
| l4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,