DECISIONS.

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61c. Before any article or package can bo received into tlie Building, TWO copies of a list orinvoice giving such description of every article as the Exhibitor wishes to appear in theCatalogue must have been duly forwarded on or before 31st January to the Executive Com-mittee, on the proper forms for the Catalogue as furnished to the Exhibitor. A receipt willbo given for these forms, which will be the authority for the admission of the Goods to thoBuilding. If an Exhibitor’s articles are contained in several packages, a brief list indicatingtho number of Packages, and tho contents of each separate Package, should be sent previouslyor with tho Packages.

01/. Articles intended to be exhibited in different Sections should not be included in one, andtho same package, unless they are to be exhibited together to illustrate each other, (NeeDecisions 123, 142, 143.)

Oiy. Tho articles and packages will bo both unloaded at the Building, and taken to the placesappointed in the Building by tho officers of the Commission, and the Exhibitors, Agents,&e., will bo duly informed when they can bo admitted to tho Building to unpack them foroxai nination.

(il/;. When tho articles are deposited in tho Building, and upon receipt of duo notice fromtho Executive Committee, Exhibitors themselves or their representatives, or Local Com-mittees, or their Agents, must themselves unpack, put together, and arrange all articles.

Cl/. All packing cases, &c., must bo removed by tho Exhibitors, &c., as soon as tlioy reeeivoorders from the Executive Committee to do so. Packing cases not removed within three daysafter notice by the Exhibitors or Agents will be sold by the Executive Committee, and thoproceeds applied to the funds of the Exhibition.

Cl j. To prevent loss, miscarriage, or mislaying, it is requested that articles or packing casescontaining them, which occupy less bulk than three cubic feet, may not bo sent separately, butthat Exhibitors or Committees will so arrange that packages under such size, containing as faras possible, the name classes (/articles, shall bo transmitted in combination. Care should botaken to observe liulo C, already laid down above.

CIA Every Exhibitor or his Agent or Servant will be provided with a Ticket to enable him topass into tho Building, to unpack and arrange tho articles, which ticket he will be called uponto produce on entrance, and give up when required.

[The experience of the removal of goods allowed the advantage of fixing absolutely upon the ex-hibitor or his authorized agents the responsibility of introducing the workmen necessary for thecompletion of his arrangements.]

LODGINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.

62. With tho view of affording information, a Register has been opened by the Secretary ofthe Executive Committee for the Exhibition of 1851, in which will be entered the names andaddresses of persons disposed to provide accommodation for artizans from tho country whilstvisiting tho Exhibition next year. Copies of this Register of Lodgings may be had on appli-cation. The Register contains a column in which the particulars, &c., of the accommodationeach party proposes to afford will bo entered. All applications for participating in thoso ar-rangements must bo made through Local Committees.

[Those Registers were not found to answer, and from the result it is obvious that there was no necessityfor the Commission attempting to provide accommodation. Sim Appendix XXIV'.]

62 a. It must bo clearly understood that whilst Her Majesty’s Commissioners are desirous ofcollecting the fullest information likely to be serviceable to the Working Classes , they do notpropose to charge themselves in any respoct with tho management, but simply to affordinformation.

G3, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69.

ARRANGEMENTS WITH FOREIGN BOWERS.

70. No articles of foreign manufacture, to whomsoever they may belong, or wheresoeverthey may bo, can be admitted for exhibition, unless they come with the sanction of the VentralAuthority of the country of which they are the produce. Her Majesty’s Commissioners havecommunicated to such Central Authority the amount of space which can bo allowed to thoproductions of the country for which it acts, and will also state the further conditions andlimitations which may from time to time be decided on with respect to the admission ofarticles. All articles forwarded by such Central Authority will then be admitted, providedthey do not require a greater aggregate amount of space than that assigned to the productionsof the country from which they come ; and, provided also, that they do not violate the generalconditions and limitations. It will rest with the Central Authority in each country to decideupon tho merits of tho several articles presented for exhibition, and to tako care that thosewhich are sent are such as fairly represent tho industry of their fellow-countrymen.

71. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will consider that to be the Central Authority in eachcase which is stated to be so by tho Government of its country. Having once been put incommunication with a Central Authority in any country, they must decline, absolutely andentirely, any communication with private and unauthorized individuals ; and should any such