DECISIONS.

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02?). All Articles and Packages must be delivered at the Building witli the Freight, Carriage,Porterage, and all charges and dues whatever paid upon them.

02r. All Articles and Packages must be delivered at the Entrances at the south side of theBuilding appointed to receive Foreign and Colonial productions.

92d. Every Article sent separately, and every Package, must be legibly marked with thename of the Foreign Country or Colony of which they are the produce or manufacture, and,as far as practicable, with the name of the Exhibitor or Exhibitors.

92r. The following is the Form of Address, &c., which the Executive Committee suggestshould be adopted when practicable.

To the Executive Committee for the Exhibition of 1851.MJILDING, HYDE l’AUK, LONDON .

From [slate Country, and Exhibitor’s name.]

9G. It is requested that every Foreign Commission and Colonial Committeo will cause tobe prepared and forwarded to the Executive Committeo Two copies of a list or invoice, givingsuch description in the English language of every article as the Exhibitor wishes to appear inthe Catalogue. Forms in which it is suggested that the information for the Catalogue shallbe made out are herewith transmitted. (See Decision 150.)

97. Officers of the Commission will assist in unloading the articles and packages at theBuilding, and taking the same to certain places appointed in the Building. In the firstinstance, the productions of each Country must be brought into one spot, to enable theOfficers of Her Majesty’s Customs to examine them, and the Officers of the Commission toascertain the nature, bulk, &c.

98. When the Articles of each Country are thus deposited in the placo assigned to them,the Commissioners and Agents appointed by Foreign Commissioners or Colonial Committees,or the Exhibitors, must thomselves unpack, put together, and arrange all articles. In thecase of Foreign and Colonial productions, as they must be necessarily unpacked for a con-siderable timo before they are finally arranged for exhibition, the Executive Committeesuggest that the Consignees or Agents, should be authorized to provide proper temporarycovering to protect the articles from dust, &c. ; and in the case of machinery and polishedgoods make the requisite arrangements for keeping the articles free from rust, &c.

[Oiled calico appeared on the whole to bo the best article, ns keeping off wet if any glass was brokenoverhead,]

99. All packing cases, &c., must bo removed by the Agents, Exhibitors, &c., as soon asthey receive orders from the Executive Committee to do so. Backing cases not removedwithin six days after notice has been given, will be sold by the Executive Committee, and theproceeds applied to the funds of the Exhibition.

99«. To prevent loss, miscarriage), or mislaying, it is requested that articles or packingcases containing them, which occupy less bulk than two cubic feet, may not be sent separately,but that packages under such size containing, as far as possible, the same classes of articles,shall bo transmitted in combination.

100. Every Exhibitor or his Agent or Servant will bo provided with a Ticket to enablethem to pass into the Building, to unpack and arrange the articles, at such times as theExecutive Committee may consider advisable, which Ticket he will be called upon to produceon entrance.

[Experience rather went to show that admission by tickets for the workmen was open to many abuses,and that such abuses would probably have been less frequent if several entrances bad been pro-vided, and encli entrance had been placed under the control of some responsible person, authorizedto admit any one who came on business, without further formality, tickets being given to theExhibitors or their representatives only.]

THE PHIZES AND JURIES.

101. Her Majesty’s Commissioners have had under their consideration the subject of theprizes to be awarded to exhibitors, and have resolved to tako immediate steps for having(three) medals struck of various sizes and different designs, it being their opinion that this isthe form in which it will, generally speaking, bo most desirable that the rewards should bedistributed. They have decided to select bronze for the material in which the medals are to beexecuted, considering that metal to bo better calculated than any other for the developmentof superior skill and ingenuity in the modallic art, and at the same time the most likely toconstitute a lasting memorial of the Exhibition.

[When the Jurors met they recommended (wo Medals only, and added in (heir Reports HonourableMention. The third Medal has since been appropriated by theOommission to the use of the Jurorsthemselves, and two other Medals, for Exhibitors and those who have rendered Service to theExhibition, have been prepared.]

102. With regard to the mode in which tlio prizes tiro to be awarded, the Commissioners