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114ii. A classified List of subjects under the province of each Jury is prepared, and formsthe limitation to each class.
114<\ The Articles in the Building aro arranged as much as possible in the 30 Classos so asto be coincident with the field of action of each Jury, and to facilitate its labours.
114/. If Exhibitors accept the office of Jurors, they cease to be competitors for prizes in theclass to which they are appointed, and these cannot bo awarded either to them individually,or to the firms in which they may bo partners.
[Articles shown by Exhibitors in the Class in which they actcil os Jurors were marked as “ Exhibitedby a Juror of this Class, and therefore not eligible for award.”]
114'/. Juries may take evidence when a majority of the Jury deem it advisable, and name thepersons to bo consulted. J urors of another class may also bo called in aid by a Jury, when aknowledge involved in that class is required.
114/i. Juries may act in matters of detail by sub-committees, but no award can be madeexcept by tho majority of the Jury.
114/ Before a Jury can finally make its awards, they must be submitted to a meeting of thoJuries of allied subjects, as indicated in tho groups in tho Decision 3. These Mcetiugs of alliedJuries will have power to confirm the award of the Juries, and to investigate any disputeddecisions. Before, however, tho awards aro published, they must bo submitted to a Council,consisting of the Chairmen of the Juries, in order to secure uniformity of action—and a com-pliance with the regulations originally laid down by that body.
114/. The awards of a Jury, when reported by tho Council of Chairmen as being made in con-formity to the rules, aro final.
114/r. The Juries will commence their duties on Monday the 12th May, at 10 o’clock, and willbe aided in the general transaction of the business by a person to bo named by tho ltoyal Com-missioners, who by himself, or by a deputy to be approved of by tho Commission, may bepresent at their deliberations, for tho purpose of explaining tho rules of tho Commission.This Nominee of the Commission will not have a vote in any of tho Juries, or at all interferein the adjudication of awards.
Constitution of Juries.
115a. The Jury will in general consist of an ecpial number of British subjects and ofForeigners.*
115ft. If Foreign Commissions do not send a sufficient number of Foroignors to represent one-half of the J urors in each Class, the deficient numbers may bo oomploted by tho appointmentof British subjects.
115c. Country as well as metropolitan districts will be represented on tho Jury.
115(i Each Jury will be presided over by a Chairman to be nominated by tho Commissioners,and ho will be aided by a Deputy Chairman to be elected by the Jury.
115e. Juries may appoint one of tlicir own body as a Beporter.
Council of Chairmen.
116«. Tho Chairmen of the Thirty Juries will bo associated as a body, to bo called tho “Councilof Chairmen.”
116ft. In the absoneo of a Chairman, the Deputy Chairman will take his seat at the Council.
116c. Tho Council of Chairmen will bo constituted, as far as practicable, of British subjectsand Foreigners in equal numbers.
116r/. The first and chief duties of tho Council of Chairmen will be to frame the rules for thoguidance of the J urios.
116c. Tho Council will also have to determine the conditions under which tho 1st, 2nd, and3rd Class Medals respectively are to be awarded, and to define the general principles to whichit will bo advisable to conform in the awards in tho several departments of tho Exhibition.It is tho wish of the Commission that Medals should bo awarded to articles possessing decidedsuperiority of whatever nature that superiority may be, and not with reference to a merelyindividual competition. Tho three Classos of Medals aro intended to distinguish the respec-tive characters of subjects, and not as first, second, and third in degree for the same class ofsubjects.
116/. The Council of Chairmen must see that tho awards of the individual Jurios are inaccordance with the rules before they aro considered final.
116//. Although the Commissioners may bo disposod, under peculiar circumstances, as sot forthin Decision No. 112, to consider tho propriety of pecuniary grants to individual exhibitors,
17
2
Switzerland
Belgium
14
Holland
2
Sweden .
1
6
2
2
Franco .
38
7
Zollverein
. 100
Sicily
1
1
4
Total
7
1
5
23
24
318