ILLUSTRATIONS OF DUTIES BY LOCAL COMMITTEES.

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APPENDIX No. VII.

Illustrations of the Duties performed.by the Local Committees.

[/i complete List of the Local Committees is shown in Appendix XL.]

[Tlio general duties of tho Local Committees are described in pages xxi, xxii of the Reportand tho mode in which they co-operated with tho Executive Committee in the apportionmentof tho British Space, is described at p. xxxii. In illustration of these duties, the followingsummaries are given as furnished by tho Secretaries of some of the Committees.

It may be explained that on account of tho vast number of applicants for Space from theMetropolis, amounting to nearly one-half of those from tho whole kingdom, special arrange-ments were made to eusuro the best possible performance of the important duties of selectionand rejection.

The Local Metropolitan Commissioners formed themselves into thirty Committees, corre-sponding to the thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was subsequently divided. Thedemands for Space were sorted on the same systom, and those of each Class referred to tlioirrespective Committees, who dealt with them in precisely tho same manner as the ProvincialLocal Committees, with the exception that an appeal laid from their decision in tho firstinstance to a Council formed of tho Chairmen of each Committee. The statement of theoperations of the Marylebono Committoo will illustrate tho earlier stages,—that of the Sec-tional Committee Class V, the later stages of tho operation of tho Metropolitan Committees.Tho names of the Chairmen, Secretaries, and Treasurers of tho Metropolitan District Com-mittees are shown in Appendix XL. ; tho names of those who were appointed Local Commis-sioners and acted on tho Sectional Committees, will be found in tho genoral List of LocalCommissioners, at tho end of Appendix I.

The Rev. S. K. Cattloy, and D. W. Wire, Esq., were Secretaries to tho Council of Chairmenof tho Metropolitan Sectional Committees, as well as of the original City Committee.]

1850.14 March.

A.

25 May

B.

8 July

C.

9 Aug.12 Aug.

1851.22 Feb.

27 Aug.

Summary of Proceedings of the Birmingham Local Committee.

Public Meeting hold at Town Hall, Birmingham , and Local Committee appointed ;81 members, consisting of leading manufacturers in principal trades, merchants,professional men, &c.—Chairman, tho Mayor, William Lucy, Esq. Sub-Com-mittee of 18 members, formed to arrange and carry out working details onapproval by General Committee.

Desolation passed at sumo Public Meeting, recommending Honorary Distinctionsin place of tho Money Prizes proposed by tho Royal Commissioners for thosuccessful competitors at tho Exhibition;—the recommendation was ultimatelyadopted.

Subscriptions. —Public Subscriptions commenced at same meeting “ for the purposeof defraying Local Expenses, and aiding tho Funds of tho Exhibition in suchmanner and extent as the Local Committee should deem advisable.”—Treasurer,Jamos Moilliot, Esq., Banker, Birmingham .

1,000 Circulars issued to tho parties in town and neighbourhood likely to subscribe,applying for Subscriptions, and enclosing a note to be filled up with tho intendedamount of subscription, and returned to the Chairman.

1,000 Second Circulars issued, applying for Subscriptions as before, and containinga list of subscriptions to that date, £041 3s.

140 Circulars sent to all Subscribers whoso promised subscriptions were notreceived, requesting an immediate payment to Treasurer, in compliance withwish of Royal Commissioners.

Second Circular sent to Subscribers to same effect.

Jlemittance of £500 sent to Royal Commissioners for tho Fund of tho Exhibition ;—balanoe loft with Treasurer £10 18s. M.

1(30 Circulars sont to all Exhibitors who had not subscribed, applying for Subscrip-tions to tho Local Fund.

Final Accounts passed at General Mooting of Local Committoo and Subscribers,and account closed, as follows :—

Dr. Subscriptions promised £908 0 (i Cr. Remittance to Fund . £500 0 o

,, ,, not paid 11 0 6 Local Expenses . . . 390 14 o

£890 14 0

£890 14 0

»,* The capital letters in the margin refer to the printed forms used by the Birmingham Committee.

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