The Winslow mail., 1899-01-28
EXPOSITION RULES.
Those That Will Govern Exhibitors
at Paris.
Some Valuable Information Concern-
ing Customs, Regulations, Insur-
ance. Guards and
Packing.

That the international exposition at
Paris IN 1900 will be marvellous affair
seems assured. The rules and regula,
tions just issued by the French commits
sioner general, Alfred Picard, recite
that ;ll the civilized nations of the
earth shall be invited to participate in
the exposition, and that to the contem-
Poraneo1s exposition a retrospective
centennial exposition shall be Joined.
This latter Will resume the progress ac-
complished throughout the world in all
branches of art. music, industry, etc,
since 1900, and special exhibitions of an
cient art, exhibits of ancient agricul-
tural implements and machinery, and
musical congresses will be made.
The entire space occupied by the ex-
position VIII be considered as a bonded
warehouse, and foreign products for
warded to the exposition will enter
France Though all goods traffic Offices
The sender will be required to forward
statement, which must be joined 10
| the goods traffic receipt, and in which
must pe indicated the nature kind,
weight and origin of the products All
| shipments to the exposition will be
| subject to the conditions of interna-
tional goods traffic or ordinary goods
traffic, at the option of the parties in
teresed. Shipments made by interna-
tional or ordinary goods traffic will not
undergo examination at the frontier
of France. Sealing will be done free,
and all shipments will be exempt from
statistic charges.
Foreign products received into the
exposition grounds will be taken
charge of by the special customs de-
partment of the exposition and subject
to the general rules Of warehouses; any
such products offered will not be taxed
with more than the tariff applicable to
similar products of the most favored
nation. Objects manufactured within
the limits of the exposition, from ma
terials of fo reign origin imported under
the customs regime, will not be liable
to any other duties than those pertain
ing to the manufactured materials.
The management of the exposition
VIII take measures to protect against
danger all objects exhibited, but will not
he responsible for loss by fire or other
accidental causes. Exhibitors will be
expected to insure their products at
their own expense. On the other hand,
the manag ement will assume the re-
sponsib:!ity for damage done to objects
exhibited in the Retrospective or CEN
tennial sections, but only to the amount
fixed by actual agreement. The man.
agement OF the exposition will not as
sumo any responsibility for thefts and
robbery, but will organize surveil-
lance department to prevent robbery.
| Guards can be appointed by exhibitc. S,
subject to the approval of the director
generals department, but they must
obey all the rules and regulations of
the management of the exposition,
upon pain of dismissal.
| Exhibitors viii have all the rights
and imnunities granted by the French
! law Of May 23, 1868, as to the guarantee
| of invention liable to be patented, and
also of manufacturing designs, within
| the delays and subject to the conditions
of said law. No exhibitor will bn re-
| quired 10 pay rent for space occupied
in any of the palaces, pavilions or build
ings clected by the management of the
exposition, and all water, gas, Steam
| and motive power necessary for work
ing al; apparatus and machinery ex-
hibited will be supplied free of charge.
Exhibitors, however, will be required
to furnish at their own expense the
necessary piping for receiving water,
gas or steam, also the intermediary
translnissions required for the recep-
tion OF the motive power on the driy-
ing bands,
Exhibitors will be required to pay
all aexpenses connected with packing,
shipping, unpacking, storage of cases,
placing objects on exhibit, repacking
and reshipping. 10 exhibitor will be
allowed to erect private building un-
til the complete plans have been SUBJ
mitted to and approved by the man
agemen- Of the exposition, and all earth
work and gardening done by exhibitors
must be at their expense, and only
upon inc approval of the management.
No exhibitor, concessionaire or other
person will be allowed to advertise
within the limits of the exposition by
HlSdHo u pOSleIS, pIOoI'SCluoCS, manu-
bills, etc, without authority and per-
mission from the commissioner-gen-
eral.
All Industrial and agricultural prod
ucts admitted to the exposition must be
placed within the exposition in the
period from December 1, 1899, and Feb
ruary 28, 1900, and all works of art
admitted must be placed in the palace
in which they will be exhibited between
| February Is and February 20, 1900.
Since the last Paris exposition no
countr" in the world has made such
enormous progress in all kinds of in
dustriai enterprise as the United States,
and the manufacturers alone of this
country would use, if it could be Sc
cured, ten times the space allotted to
America.-N, Y, Commercial Adver-
tiser.
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