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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



State Agricultural Society at its ensuing 

 Fair: therefore, 



Resolved, That the said grounds be now 

 surrendered to the Executive Committee 

 of the State Agricultural Society, to be 

 held and used by them for the purposes of 

 the said Fair, and as long as the said So- 

 ciety may desire to retain them for that 

 purpose; and that the Superintendent of 

 City Grounds deliver the keys of the said 

 square to the Chief Marshal or other pro- 

 per officer of the Agricultural Society. 



Resolved, That the Superintendent of 

 City Grounds report himself with ten of 

 the hands in his employment to the Chief 

 Marshal of the State Agricultural Society, 

 and that under the direction of the said 

 Marshal he cause such repairs and other 

 work to be done on the grounds as may be 

 necessary during the continuance of the 

 Fair. 



[Copy: TesteJ Tho. T. Giles, 



Sec'y Com. City Grounds.. 



Resolved, That the Executive Commit- 

 tee now proceed to supply vacancies in 

 the committees appointed to award pre- 

 miums at the Exhibition to commence on 

 the first proximo, and that in case of the 

 absence of any member on the day of their 

 meeting, each of the committeesof award is 

 authorized to fill vacancies in its own body. 

 If there be a full committee of those ori- 

 ginally appointed present, then the new 

 appointments to be null and void. 



The Committee then examined the lists 

 of judges with the view to supply vacan- 

 cies known to exist, and added the follow- 

 ing new appointments on the several fol- 

 lowing committees, viz: 



ON EXPERIMENTS. 



B. Johnson Barbour of Orange. 

 Branch 2d— On Essays or Written Com- 

 munications— David Chalmers of Halifax. 



CATTLE. 



Short Horns, fyc. — Gen. R. T. Preston. 



Devons and Alderneys — Ro. J. Dunn of 

 Chesterfield. 



Natives and Grades — E. J. Amiss of 

 Montgomery. 



Working Oxen— Jas. R. Kent of Mont- 

 gomery. 



Fat Cattle— J. T. Sawyer of Wythe. 



SHEEP. 



Fine and Middle Wools — C. L. Crockett 

 of Wythe, William Old of Powhatan, R. 

 E. Scott of Fauquier, Mr. Patterson of 

 Bedford. 



Long Wools— Wm. Old of Powhatan, 

 Rev. J. S. Armistead of Cumberland. 



Natives, ^c— Nathaniel Alexander of 

 Mecklenburg, Wm. Meredithof Brunswick. 



Imported — A. B. Nichols of Bedford, J. 

 S. Hardaway of Amelia. 



PREMIUM ANIMALS. 



Travis H. Eppes of Nottoway, John F. 

 Wiley of Amelia. 



POULTRY. 



J. Maury Garland of Richmond, W. M. 

 Bagley of Lunenburg. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



1st Class— Dr. Thomas R. Blandy of 

 Nottoway, William Gilmer of Albemarle. 



4th Class— Thos. L. Preston of Wash- 

 ington, Jas. Harding of Richmond, Wm. 

 D. Simms of Henrico, Wm. E. Meade of 

 Amelia. 



5th Class — A. Stevenson of Albemarle. 



AGRICULTURAL STEAM ENGINE. 



John A. Jeter of Richmond, Uriah Wells 

 of Petersburg, Wm. J. Watkins of Char- 

 lotte. 



MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION, &C. 



Corbin Warwick of Richmond. 



PLOUGHING AND PLOUGHING MATCH. 



R. W. N. Noland. 



FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES. 



Nathan Ward of Nottoway, Dr. Hen- 

 derson of Cumberland, Jesse L. Maury of 

 Albemarle, William Sayre of Norfolk. 



VEGETABLES. 



Th. W. Sydnor of Nottoway, Thomas 

 S. Pleasants of Petersburg, William H. 

 Betts of Henrico, Algernon S. Storrs of 

 Henrico, Nathaniel Matthews of Henrico. 



HOUSEHOLD MANUFACTURES. 



Sam'l C. Anderson of Prince Edward. 



FAMILY FLOUR. 



B. W. Finney of Powhatan, Hugh Nel- 

 son of Petersburg, B. F. Hannan of Pe- 

 tersburg. 



MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. 



Thomas F. Eppes of Nottoway. 



DISCRETIONARY PREMIUMS. 



W. C. Rives of Albemarle, E. G. Leigh 

 of Amelia, Dr. A. A. Campbell of Notto- 

 way, John A. Scott of Prince Edward, 

 James Bosher of Richmond, Richard E. 

 G. Adams of Lunenburg. 



The President presented and read the 

 annual report of the proceedings of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, which was approved, 

 adopted and ordered to be presented to the 

 Society. 



Resolved, That the badges designed to 

 designate the members of the Society be 

 distributed gratuitously. 



