DECISIONS.
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152c. On tlio first day of exhibition Season Tickets only will be available ; and no monoywill bo received at the doors of entrance on that day.
On tho second and third aays tlio price of admission on entrance £. s. d.
will bo (each day) . . ..10 0
On tho fourth day of exhibition . ..0 5 0
To bo reduced on tho twenty-second day to . . . .010
From the twenty-second day tho prices of admission will bo asfollows :—
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, in each week 0 10
On Fridays.0 2 0
On Saturdays . . . ..0 5 0
152/. No ohango will bo given at the doors. This regulation is necessary to prevent theinconvenionco and confusion which would arise from interruption or delay at tho entrances.
152;/. Should experience in tho progress of tho Exhibition render any alteration in thosearrangements necessary, tho Commissioners reserve to themselvos tho power of making suchmodifications as may appear desirable, of which duo and timely notice, however, will bo givento tho Public.
[On tlio 31st of July, the prices of Season Tickets wero reduced to £1 10s. for a Gentleman, and £1for a l.ady; and on the 9th of August, tho price of admission on Saturdays was reduced to2s. Cd. The reduction iu price did not cause any large sale. See Appendix XVII.]
ltULES FOR VISITORS TO TIIE EXHIBITION.
153a. The Exhibition will open at 10 a.m., except on Saturdays, when it will open at 12. Itwill close every ovouing at 6 at which hour bolls will bo rung in tho building.—N.B. TheCommissioners roservo to thomsolves the right of altering tho hours as they may find requisite.
[It wns found desirable to keep the Exhibition open until 7 during the early port of tho summer. Asthe season advanced, tho boll w as rung at (>, and later still, ten minutes before sunset. One bellthough a large one, which was tried at first, was found totally powerless in such a crowd, and theExecutive Committee were glad to take advantage of the numerous bells sent for exhibition to givenotice of the hour of closing.]
1535. Carriages must go to tho South and West entrances. They may drive up close to thooutsido of the iron railing.
Foot visitors may outer at tho South, West, and East on trances, tho latter being reserved forthorn.
Season tickets will pass through all tho entrances.
[Eleven persons w r ere at first required for the inspection of the season tickets.]
There are soveral pay offices at each entrance.
[The means of checking tho receipts that were adopted wero self-registering turn-tables, of whicheight were put up at the east end, seven at. tlio south, and three at the west. Those eighteenplaces, for taking the money were found sufficient, except on about twenty occasions, when it wasrequisite to allow' the general public to pass in by the season-ticket entrances, two persons beingstationed at each to take the money. Such pressure seldom lasted more than half an hour.]
There are several exit doors at tho sides and ends of the building, so marked on tho plan.
No persons will be allowed to go out by tho entrance doors, or enter by tho exit doors.
[It was found impracticable to induce the public to go out at tho exit doors, the greatest number ofpersons going out by the same door they came in at. Conspicuous placards were put up, pointingto tho exit doors, but were only partially successful.]
153c. Tho Building is divided into Areas, (/. e., spaces of 24 feet square between 4 columns)which are marked on tho plan, by letters along tho end and by numbers along the side of thoBuilding : those letters and numbers are marked on ovory column in white letters at about 7feet from tho ground. The articles are divided into Classes and Nations, and the Names ofClasses and Nations are givon on the Plan, and marked upon the iron girders of tho Building.
[This marking wns useful to the staff of the Executive Committee during the arrangements, as well usdining tho Exhibition, but not much to the Public.]
The Catalogue is classified on tho same system. The numbering of articles is generally fromWest to blast by classes. Visitors are requested, in going through tho Building , to follow asmuch as possible the course of tho sun, i. e., to go from the left towards the right in thopassages and courts, in order to prevent confusion. Plans of the Building are placed in differ-ent parts of it.
[The circulation of the visitors in any particular direction was never successfully enforced, except ina fow particular cases, before objects of great attraction.]
153d. Visitors aro particularly requested not to touch any of tho articles.
153c. Official Catalogues may bo purchased of tho Contractors, Messrs. Spicer and Clowes,at tho different entrances. Abridged Edition, Price Is.
153/'. Refreshments of a light description aro provided according to an authorized scale ofcharges hung up in tho rooms. Tho first class room is in the centre transept; other roomsare on tho W est and East sides.