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they will only take such applications into consideration on the recommendation of the severalJuries, sanctioned by the Council of Chairmen.

llG/i. As somo of the most important duties of the Council of Chairmen are preliminary tothe action of the Juries, it is necessary that they should meet one week previous to the assem-bling of the J urios. The duties of the Council will therefore commence on Monday, tlio 5thof May.

11(1 i. In order to represent the wishes of the Commission, and to explain its rules, a nomineeof the Commission will attend the meetings of the Council, and aid it in the transaction ofbusiness ; but he will not possess a vote, or act as a member of the Council.

Mode of Appointing the English Jurors.

117n. Those towns which exhibit to a considerable extent in any of the Classes will bo invitedto send a list of names of persons who would efficiently represent the knowledge of thoseClasses as Jurors.

11 7/j. It will bo necessary to state, according to the classified Jury list, tho subdivisions of theClass with which tho person recommended is specially acquainted ; and all nominations mustbe made in classes, and not in tho aggregate.

117c. As it is necessary to reduce the lists to tho standard number for oaeli Jury, the Com-mission charges itself with this duty.

117d. Those persons who have been recommended as Jurors, but who from tho small numbersof the Jury are not placed on it, may, on tho application of a Jury, bo called in on specialoccasions, to givo aid, under the title of Associates, but without a vote.

[Many of tho Juries called in Experts in addition to the Associates.]

Mode of Appointing Foreign Jurors.

118. Note .—Tho decisions regarding Foreign Jurors are delayed until tho opinions of thoagents of Foreign Commissions are obtained as to tho proportions in which each nation should borepresented in the respective classes, and as to tho principles of nomination most agreeable totho countries which tlioy represent.

Meeting of Juries.

llffit. The Jurors, on being appointed, will rocoivo immediate notice of appointment, andtheir names will be published.

119/). The Chairmen will he required to meet on Monday the 5th May, at 10 o’clock.

119c. Tho Juries will meet for the transaction of business, on Monday the 12th May, at 10o’clock.

119d. Although impossible to set apart special days in which the Juries alono can examinetho Articles exhibited, to the exclusion of the public, arrangements will be made to carry onthese examinations with as little inconvenience as possible.

[Most of the Juries found it expedient to commence their duties early in the morning, before tileadmission of 1 lie public.]

119<\ Jurors, immediately on their arrival in London , are requested to report thomselves attho Jury Office, in the Exhibition Building, whore they will obtain their Jurors’Ticket, andreceive all necessary information.

120. The following Minute of tho lloyal Commission on tho Award of tho Council Medal wasafterwards published in explanation of tho Decision relative to Brizes :—

“With reference to tho awards of tho Council Medal, tho Commissioners think it properto recapitulate tho terms of those Decisions (107 and 1 IT), and to explain with somewhatjreator minuteness tho exact meaning which they intonded to attach to them.

“ It is obvious that in tho case of manufactured Articles mere excellence of manufacture,being in other words a more difference in degree between subjects included in the sainoclass, cannot bo rewarded with a Council Medal without a deviation from tho principle of thisdecision. If, lmwover, there is any novelty of invention or adaptation, or any peculiarity intho mode of manufacture, which can also bo taken into account, and of which the importanceand value shall bo judged sufficient, the Council Modal may properly be given.

“ Thus, for example, if a piece of Linen be exhibited of such remarkable excellence as to boat once and by unanimous consent recognised as greatly superior to any other piece of Linen in tho whole Exhibition, yet, if tho ordinary processes only have been employed in its pro-duction, and if it bo not distinguished by any originality in tho dosign applied to it, it oughtnot to have a Council Medal, however great may have been tho care and labour bostowod uponit. But if, on tho other hand, a pieco of Linen of very decided excellence should bo producedby a new method, exhibiting advantages not hitherto attained, it would be quito within thospirit of tho Decision in question that such method should bo rewarded with a CouncilMedal.

“ Or again, if a sample of Sugar of extraordinary fmenoss should bo exhibited, if such fine-ness were tho result only of the application of tho ordinary processes, with more than ordinarycare and skill, it ought not to have tho Council Modal; but if a new chemical agent, or a newprocess had been employed with advantage in its production, tho process by which it wasproduced, if sufficiently important, would bo eligible to receive it.