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interior of the Exhibition Building, also for the necessary
works for setting-machinery in motion.
Art. XXVIII. Tables and counters, floors, enclosures,-
barriers, and partitions between the different classes of
productions will be furnished gratuitously to exhibitors.
Art. XXIX. All detailed arrangements, such as steps,
shelves, supports, suspenders, glass cases, hangings, awn-
ingi, paintings, and ornaments, will be at the charge of the
exhibitors.
Art, XXX. No arrangements, dispositions, or ornamen-
tation will be allowed to be executed which do not conform
to the general phtn, and must be executed under the sur-
veillance of inspectors; who will determine on the height,
form, and projections of counters, as well as on the colour
of the painting, hangings, and draperies.
Art. XXXI. -Decorators recommended or approved by
the Imperial Commission will be at the service of the exhi-
bitors .and their charges will be regulated by. the agents
appointed for that purpose if the exhibitor desire it,
Nevertheless exhibitors are at liberty to employ, with
the authority of the commission, • sock workmen as they
may them. elves choose.
Art. 2CXXII. Exhibitors who may wish to exhibit ma-
claft-esOf-bther objects of an extraordinary weight or size,
and which will require foundations or particular-construc-
tions, must make a declaration to that effect on their de-
mand for space.

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--Art. XXXITI. These likewiSe who exhibit machines re-
quiring steam pc aver, fountains', or hydraulic engines, must
state their intention in proper tinie, and name the quantity
and pressure of water or steam which will be necessary for
theta. • •

Art. XXXIV. All prednefs wilt -he arranged together
by nations, iu the order of classification indicated bt
, Art icie .VI.; nevertheless, the different products of. one
I individual;Of one cerporatitin, town, department, or e. lony, can, if there II space enough, be re
exhibited iu parti7
culq.r gToupe, when much dispesitidifs do not essentially
I interfere with the established order.
Art. XXXV. The Imperial Commiesion will take every
necessary precantiOn to preserve objects exhibited, from
every chance ef damage.; but if, notwithstanding the pre-
Cautions taken, an accident should happen, the commis-
sion will not be responidble fOr the damage that `ay re-
sult. These risks exhibitors meat take on themselves, as
also the expense of insurance, if they judge this precau-
tion necessary.
' Art. XXXVI; The Imperial Commission will also pro-
vides numerous aid active staff-for watching the objects
exhibited; but they ,will not be responsible for any thefts
or frauds that may be committed.
Art. XXXVII. Every exhibitor will be allowed to em-
ploy an agent to watch his own goods. Motice, .mnst be
given berm the opening of the Exhibition of the name
and station of this agent. He will have a ticket of ad-
mission delivered him, which he will not be allowed either
to transfer or lend during the period of the Eihibition, on
pain of forfeiture.
Art. XXXVIIL Agents of exhibitors. must confine
themselves to answering any questions that may be ad-,
dressed to them; and to giving cards of address, prospec-
tuses, or price lists when asked for. •
They will be forbidden, on pain of expulsion, from soli-
citing the attentiop, of lisitors, or from inviting them to
buy objects exhibited. ' '
, Art. =IX. The selling price of any article exhibited
mey be prominently afaxed to it.
Any exhibitor desirous of doing so, must previously
make a declaration- before his committee, either local,
French; or foreign, who will certify the price, after test-
ing its verity. .
The, price thus affixed will, in case of a gale, be obliga-
tory on the exhibitog as regards the buyer.
In any case where tho' deClaration• of price shall be
proved false by the Imperial Commission, theyswill have
the power of turning the article out of the Eahibition,
and exclinling the exhibitor-froni exhibiting.
Art. XL. Articles sold. cannot be remoied until the close
of the Exhibition. • •

FOREIGN PRODUCTS.
• CILStOMS.

Art. XLI. As regards foreign products admitted to the
-Exhibition, the Ethibition Building will be considered as
a bonded warehouse.

Art. XLII. These products accompanied by the hullo-
tins mentioned in Article 19, will enter France by the
ports and frontier towns undermentioned :
Lille,'Valenciennes, Forbach, Wissembourg, Strasbourg,
Saint Louis, Les Verrieres-de-Jeux, Pont-de-Beauvoisin,
Cbapereillau, Saint Lauxent-du-Var, Marseille, Cette,
Port Veudres, Perpignan, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Nantes,
Le Havre, Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk.
Art. XLIII. The consignments may be addressed to
agents named by the Imperial Commission in each of these
ports or towns ; these agents will, for a certain tariff pre-
viously arranged, undertake all the necessary formalities
regarding customs, and forward the goods to the Exhibi-
tion Building. •
Art. XLIV. Foreign products thus entering France will
be received at the Exhibition Building, where they will.
be taken charge of by Custom-house officers.
Art. XLV. The packages can only be unpacked in the
interior of the building, in presence of the exhibitors or
their representatives, and under the care of the Custom-
house officers.

Art. XLVI. One copy of the bulletin of confents,
which will be considered as the original certificate, will
remain in the hands of the Q ustoms, another will be given
to the commissioners for classifying till Exhibition, and
the third to_ the Secretarjr General of the Imperial Com-
mission.

Art. XLVII, Foreign exhibitors or their agents will
have to declare: after the closing of the Exhibition, whe-
ther their goods are intended for re-exportaion or for in-
terior consumption.
In this latter case they can ihiraediately disport ofthem
by paying, the duty, in determining the amount of which
the Administration of Customs will take into account the
depreciation that may result from their having been ex-
posed for exhibition. •

Art. XLVIII. Articles hitherto prohibited will as an
exceptional case be admitted for interior consumption. on
ppying a duty of 20 per cent. on their actual value. This
duty is the ifteximum that will be demanded on any article
destined,for exhibition.
INTitnterr. ORGANIAATION AND POLICE ARRANGEMENTS.
Art. XLIN.. The interior organisation and police of the
eition Will be' placed under the authority of an execu-
tive committee composed of different heads of department,
who will aetettnitio aliquestions under theiijhrisdietion.
Art. lu A notice, which wilh be published before the
tim,-.) fixed for the reception of good?, will be posted in the
building. and will determine all point ;relative to the inte-
rior, regulations; and will also name the porsous charged to
aid exhibitors, and to take care of the order and security of
the -Exhibition.

Art. U. Agents and officers attached to the foreign clivi.!
sion of the Exhibition will speak the language of one or
several of the nations to which they may be attached.
Interpreters officially recoghised by the Imperial Com-
mission will, besides be established in different parts of the
foreign division. '

Art. IX. Foreign governments are requested to accredit
to the Imperial Commission special commissioners, charged
to represent their countries at' the Exhibition during the
operations of reception, cla§sifying, and placing the goods,
as welt as under any other circumstan:es where their inte-
rests are in question.
PROTECTION Or DESIGNS AND INVENTONS.
Art. LIII. Every exhibitor, the inventor or legal pro-
prietor of any process, machine, or design admitted to the
exhibitign, but whieh has not been registered or patented,
by making a demand before the opening of the Exhibition,
or during the first month of the opening, may obtain from
the Imperial Commission a certificate describing the object
exhibited.

Art. LIB'. This certificate ensures to the holder of the
object described the exclusive privilege of using it for the
period of one year, commencing the Ist May, 1854, without
prejudicing any patent that the inventor may take out be-
fore the expiration of that period.
Art. LV. Every demand for a certificate of invention
must be accompanied by an exact description of the object
or objects to be protected, and, if necessary, of a plan or
drkwing of the said objects.
Art. LVI. These demands, as well as the decisions which
will be taken regarding them, will be inscribed in a re-
gister opened for that purpose. and which will be ulti-
mately deposited with the Ministers of Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Public Works (Office of Industry), to serve as
proof when needed daring the time fixed on for the validity
of those osrtifioaies.
Art. LVII. These certificates will be given gratuitously.
JURIES AND REWARDS. -
Art. EMIT. The decisions as to the rewards for articles
exhibited, will he confided to a great international mixed
jury. This jury will be composed of jurors and deputies,
who will be divided into 30 special juries, corresponding to
the 30 classes indicated in Art 16.
Art. LIX. The number of jurors for each special jury is
fixed as follows :
For each of the classes—

Jurors. Deputies.
Nos, 3, 10, 20, and 23 ... IA
Nos. 2,6, 16, 18, and 24
Nes. 7,8, 12, 13, 14, .17, 19, 21, 25
and 26 lO
Nos. 1,4, 5,9, 11, 15, 22, and 27 8
In the division of works of art—
Class 28 will have 2O jarors.
/ „ 29 „
, 30 „
Art LX. The number of jurors to be appointed will be
for France, and4ikewise for each foreign count- in

pro.
portion to the nninbers- of exhibitors-furnishedy, by each
country.
Art. LXI. -The official committee of each nation exhi-
biting will appoint the persons forming the number of
jurors which it is entitled to nominate.
The French jurors for the first twenty-seven classes, will
be nominated by the members of the Imperial Commission
forming the seCtiou of agriculture and industry, and for
the three last classes, by the members of the section of
fine arts.
Art. LXII. In the case of the committee of a country
exhibiting, not. appointing the jurors who ought to repre-
sent that country, the vacancy will be filled by the general
assembly of jurors present.
• Art. LXIII. The Imperial Commission will divide the
jurors amongst the different classes ; they willalso deter-
mine the general rules which will serve as the basis of
oparations for the special juries.
Art. LXIV. Each special jury will have a president,
who will be named by the Imperial Commission, also a
vice-president ands reporter, who will be nominated by a
majority of votes oC'the jury.
Art. LXV. In the case of no member obtaining a de-
cided majority, tbo choice between the candidates having
the greatest number of votes will be by lot.
Art. LX The president of each jury, and in his ab-
sence the vice-pr.3sident,•will have a casting vote.
Att. LXVII. -The special juries will, besides, he (listri-
nbnected into' groups, representing 2 those manufactures con-
ted with each. other by certain'
,points of analogy or,
similitude. •
T hese •
Foupx, are (fight in number, as indicated in Art.

... The members of each_
be A
coati;. T,izXeScl fly, ..
.2. , beet iBion
dent and vice pz aE,i, 1 group will .nominate their presi•
z tal approved of by the group to which it
s•of any spacial ;jury will not
belong:.
Art. 1.;11X... The row kl. of the first class will not be
granted until :..fter theyar havelt been
o.,ffir,3!>-:0 of tic !presidents,: nd vice Prrees%iitice'i!tsbOrfathe°e'lalpiceil-
-1 gheinryof 6 ie arts is excentedfro
toin
cial,jarie.i.
callli in to its
nairtOrairrsorti4
Art.. • IJA:X. 1 :::cla special juryt is allowedmthis
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assistunco, as a isociates (w experts, one or
Lt‘linically acli minted with any particular
Lai i ted for then : examination, These persons may b.:eisquile);
selected from a movg.the inpubers of other juries; or from
among. persons;. not members of the jury, possessing the re.
quired inform: 1 ion. The members thus called in willonly
taTto part in the . laboars of the jury as regards the parti-
.hich their scrvices were required ; they
cubit. object for u
i.X.XI.- Aa
will only fort
led to deliberate and not to vote.
Art. .y exhibitor aocepting the functions of a
juror or deputy jal -or will by so doing be excluded from
the competition fof ' rewards.
The jur7 for fin ©
arts is excepted from this rule.
Art. L4XII. 7 !Iv Me
exhibiter3 are equally ineligible for