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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 a steps,
shelves, supports,
suspenders, glass cases, hangings, awn.
be at the charge of the
logs, paintings, and ornaments, will
exhibitors.
Art. XXX. No arrangements, dispositions, or ornamen-
tation will be allowed to be executed which do not conform
to the general plan, and must be executed under the sur-
veillance of inspectors, who will determine on the height,
form projections of counters, as well as on the colour
of
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t, and
the
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painting,
haene?graintogsr,s anddraperies
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, such workmen as they
may themselves choose.
Art. XXXII. Exhibitors who may Wish to exhibit ma-
chines or other 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.
Art. XXXIII. Those likewise who exhibit machines re-
quiring steam power, fountains, or hydraulic engines, must
state their intention in proper time, and name the quantity
and pressure of water or steam which will be necessary for
tkem.
Art. XXXIV. All products will be arranged together
by nations, in the order of classification indicated by
Article XVI.; nevertheless, the different products of one
individual, of one corporation; town, department, or co-
lony, can, if there is space enough, be exhibited in parti-
cular groups, when such dispositions do not essentially
interfere with the established order.
Art. XXXV. The Imperial Commission will take every
necessary precaution to preserve objects exhibited from
every chance of damage but if, notwithstanding the pre-
cautions taken, an accident should happen, the commis-
sion will not be responsible for the damage that may re-
sult. These risks exhibitors must take on themselves, as
also the expense of insurance, if they judge this precau-
tion necessary.
Art. XXXVI. The Imperial Commission will also pro-
vide a numerous and 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. Notice must be
given before 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 Exhibition, on
pain of forfeiture.
Art. XXXVIII. 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 attention of visitors, or from inviting them to
buy objects exhibited.
Art. XXXIX. The selling price of any article exhibited
may be prominently affixed 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 sale, be obliga-
tory on the exhibitor as regards the buyer.
In any case where the declaration of price shall be
proved false by the Imperial Commission, they will have
the power of turning the article out of the Eahibition,
and excluding the exhibitor from exhibiting.
Art. XL. Articles sold cannot be removed until the close
of the Exhibition.
FOREIGN PRODUCTS.
Customs.

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

Art. XLII. These products, accompanied by the bulle-
tins mentioned in Article 19, will enter France by the
ports and frontier towns undermentioned :
Lille Valenciennes, Forbach, Wissembonrg, Strasbourg,
Saint Lille,
Les Verrieres-de-Joux, Pont-de-Beauvoisin,
Chapereillan, Saint Laurent-du-Var, Marseille, Cette,
Port Vendres, Perpignan, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Nanies,
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. Ono copy of the bulletin of contents,
which will be considered as the original certificate, will
remain in the hands of the Customs, another will be given
to the commissioners for classifying the Exhibition, and
the third to the Secretary 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 immediately dispost of them
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
paylug a duty of 20 per cent. on their actual value. This
duty is the maximum that will be demanded on any article
destined for exhibition.

INTERIOR ORGANISATION AND POLICE ARRANGEMENTS.
Art. XLIX. The interior organisation and police of the
Exhibitionwill be placed under the authority of an execu-
tire committee composed of different heads of department,
who will determine all questions under their jurisdiction.
Art. L. A notice, which will be published before the
time fixed for the reception of goods, will be posted in the,
building, and will determine all points relative to the inte-
rior regulations, and will also name the persons charged to
aid exhibitors, and to take care of the order and security of
the Exhibition.

Art. LI. Agents and officers attached to the foreign divi-
sion of the Exhibition will speak tie language of one or
several of the nations to which they may be attached.
Interpreters officially recognised by the Imperial Com-
mission will besides be established in different parts of the
foreign division.
Art. LII. 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, classifying, and placing the goods,
as well as under any other circumstances where their inte-
rests are in question.
PROTECTION OF DESIGNS AND INVENTONS.
Art. LIII. Every exhibitor, the inventor or legal pro-
prietor of any process, machine, or design admitted to the
exhibition, but which 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. LIV. This certificate ensures to the holder of the
object described the exclusive privilege of using it for the
period of one year, commencing the la 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
drawing of the said objects.
Art. LVI. These demands, as well as the decisions which
will be taken regarding them, will he 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 during the time fixed on for the validity
of those oertificates.
Art. LVII. These certificates will be given gratuitously.

JURIES AND REWARDS.
Art. LVIII. The decisions as to the rewards for articles
exhibited, will be 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—

Nos. 3, 10, 20, and 23 l4 Jurors. Deputies.
4
Nos. 2,6, 16, 18, and 24
Nos. 7,8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 25
and 26 lO
Nod. 1,4, 5,9, 11, 15, 22, and 27 8

In the division of works of art—
Class 28 will have
„ 29 „
„ 30 „
Art LX. The number of jurors to be appointed will be
for France, and likewise for each foreign country, in pro-
portion to the numbers of exhibitors furnished by each
country.
Art. LXI. The official committee of each nation exhi-
biting will appoint tho 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 section 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 will also deter-
mine the general rules which will serve as the basis of
operations 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 and a reporter, who will be nominated by a
majority of votes of the jury.
Art. LXV. In the case of no member obtaining a de-
cided majority, the choioe between the candidates having
the greatest number of votes will be by lot.
Art. LXVI. The president of each jury, and in his ab-
sence
etiheet vice-
s' ic“e-president, will have a casting vote.
Art. LXVLI. The special juries will, besides, be distri-
butedrepresenting those manufactures con-
nected withre°aucPhother by certain points of analogy or
similitude.
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each
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any spec
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be confirmed until approved of by thespzercoi aulpj ut
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LXIX. The rewards of the first class will not be
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shaavned been Vie revised by a council
presidents of the spe-
cial
juryjuries.
The of fine arts is excepted from this rule.
Art. LXX. Each special jury is allowed to call in to its
assistance, as associates or experts, ono or more
technically acquainted with any particular articl!serssolits-
mittcd for their examination. These persons may betehietner
selected from among the members of other juries, or from
among persons not members of the jury, possessing
re-
quired information. The members thus called in will only
take part in the labours of the jury as regards the parti-
cular object for which their services were required ; they
will only be entitled to deliberate and not to vote.
Art. Lx_xj. Any exhibitor accepting the functions of a
juror or deputy juror will by so doing be excluded from
the competition for rewards.
The jail. fine arts is excepted from this rule.
Art. . Those exhibitors are equally ineligible fur