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APPENDIX No. IT.
Every case of ombezzlomont, or attempt at embozzloment, or any other species of fraud,will be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.
To prevent accidents from fire, all persons using tow for cleaning engines aro to provide aslate or metal box to contain the waste until removed from the Building. All smoking isstrictly forbidden. Every person is forbidden to introduce any lucifer matches or light ofany kind into tho Building.
[“ A r o smoking allowed ” was affixed in all parts of the Building in various languages.']
Notices respecting the Fitting of Counters, &c.
] 4!)s. Before any Exhibitor, whether British or Foreign, can be permitted to commence anyworks in tho Building , he must iirst obtain an authority in writing from tho Superintendentof the Class in which his articles are to be arranged, or tho Agent in charge of tho ForeignDivision, which must be countersigned by Mr. M. D. Wyatt.
The authority must set forth the particulars of the work which tho Exhibitor is permittedto construct, and tho Form is herewith attached.
No alteration in the structure of the Building, and no connexion with the drains, tho water,or gas mains, can be permitted to bo made by any Exhibitor ; if necessary, this must bedone by Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., the Contractors for the Building, at the Exhibitor’sexpense.
Before the position can be settled of any articles to be placed on tho floor, weighing morethan 2 cwt.,* or any articles to bo suspended, tho position must be certified as proper in allrespects by Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., and their certificate endorsed on the Exhibitor’s“ Permit for Fittings.”
[♦This was always interpreted by the Executive Committee, and by Messrs. Fox and Henderson them-selves, as 1 cwt. per square toot.]
No article can bo permitted to rest against any wall or column without tho permission oftho Superintendent of tho Class.
- All arrangements which affect the general decorative effect of the Building must bo referredto Mr. Owen Jones, and sanctioned in writing by him.
Exhibitors aro requested to use re<l doth to cover their counters and wall spaces, and tocomplete with red doth those parts not already covered by fittings or articles. Tho Superin-tendents of tho Classes are preparod to show specimens of tho cloth considered suitable.
CATALOGUE.
150. The Executive Committee are desirous of impressing upon Exhibitors that tho formationof the Catalogue which, however groat may bo its bulk, must necessarily be compiled andprinted in a very short time, will be much facilitated, if Exhibitors will havo tho kindness tofollow the rules hereinafter prescribed when they furnish the descriptions of tho Articles asthey wish them to appear in the Catalogue.
[Owing to the late arrival and tardy arrangement of some portions of the Exhibition, particularly onthe Foreign side,—to the delay occasioned by tho preparation of engravings, and to other cir-cumstances,—the large Official Catalogue was not completed and published until nearly the closeof the Exhibition, and some inconvenience resulted therefrom. In any future exhibition it wouldbe desirable that exhibitors should be required to affix legible explanatory notices to each of theirarticles at the opening, and that tho Catalogue should not be delayed for the preparation otengravings, which might be published in a separate volume.]
Every Exhibitor should fill up tho description of every Article, or series of Articles lie oxhibits,on printed forms which may bo had of all Local Committcos, &c. Tho sheets or forms mustbo written on one side only.
Should tho description extend beyond one page, each separate shoot or form must be markedwith tho Exhibitor’s name, and numbered consecutively.
To prevent errors in compilation and misprinting, it is desirable tho HANDWIUTlNCshould be VERT CLEAR, especial caro being taken with all names and technical terms.
It is indispensable that each Exhibitor should furnish tho following particulars, and in thoexact order prescribed :
Blank Forms for Exhibitors in each of the four Sections arc prepared, and may be obtained gratis fromevery Local Committee, and on application to Messrs. Spicer, Brothers, New Bridge-street,Blackfriars, London , and Messrs. Clowes, Stamford-street, Loudon, the joint Contractors forprinting tho Catalogue.
I. Exhibitor’s surnamo , . . Christian name.
II.Country.Address, stating the nearest
Post Town.
Ill.Capacity in which the Exhibitor appears, whether us Producer,
Importor , Manufacturer, Designer, Inventor, or Proprietor. _
IV. Tho name and description of every Article of importance or class of Articlesexhibited.