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8. Jurors of another Class, when knowlodgo of that Class is required to guide tho Jury, maybe called in if a majority of tho Jury should decide to do so.
!). In both the abovo casos, however, the porsons to bo consulted do not possess Votes, andonly remain associated with the Jury as long as tho special occasion for which tlioy woro calledrequires their presence.
10. Juries to carry on their Investigations without delay. —The Juries arooxpoctod to carry ontheir investigation with as little intermission, and to come to their decision with as little delayas possible.
11. Mode of making Awards. —When a Jury has decided upon its Awards, those Awards willbe submitted to a Mooting of all the Juries of tho same group for confirmation, and for theinvestigation of any Decision that may bo disputod.
12. The Awards will then bo submitted to the Council of Chairmen, to secure uniformity ofaction, and a compliance with the ltules now laid down, or which may heroaftor be sanctionedby tho Council.
13. The Awards will become final as soon as the Council of Chairmen shall have reportedthat they are in conformity to those Rules.
14. Aecresy.' —All tho Considerations, Discussions, and Decisions of each Jury and of thoCouncil of Chairmen are to be considered as strictly confidential, and on no account to bedivulged until tho Award has become final.
15 Medals to he awarded without reference to Nationality. —Tho Medals will bo awarded forexcellence only, without reference to countries, tho Exhibition being considered as a whole,and not as consisting of tho products of different nations.
1(5. Individual competition to he avoided. —In making tho Awards tho Juries will bear in mindthat the Royal Commissioners desire that tho different Medals should indicate different kindsof merit, and not degrees in tho same kind of merit.
17. Two Mcd<ds only to he awarded. —The J uries will only have to award tho medium size andlargo Modal. The small Medal will not bo given by tho Juries, the Commission having with-drawn it as a Prize Medal, at the request of tho Council of Chairmen.
18. Conditions for the award of Hie Medals. —Tho medium size (or as it is proposed to bocalled the “ I’rizo Modal,”) will bo awarded by tho Juries in conformity with tho decisions laiddown in tho paper issued by tho Royal Commissioners, with tho general indications containedin those directions.
19. Tho great Medal can bo finally awarded only by tho Council of Chairmon, upon recom-mendations made to that body by the allied Juries referred to in Decision !).
20. Each Jury must obtain tho sanction of its own group of Juries to its recommendation ofthe great Medal, before tho Council of Chairmen can take the award into consideration. Thogrounds, on which this recommendation is made must bo fully stated. Tho great Medal willonly be given for very pre-eminent and indisputable merit. It is impossible, until the Jurieshavo acquired a knowledge of the articles exhibited, to define the proportion of tho Croat to thePrize Modal; but the Council of Chairmen havo to announce their intention of making thoproportion a very small one.
21. Tho Chairmen of tho groups of Juries havo had under their consideration tho variousconditions which it will bo advisable to adopt in tho award of Prizes in tho various classesinto which tho Exhibition is divided. They do not intend that those conditions should bocompulsory on tho Juries, as it is probable that thoy may require modification in particularcases, but they may be useful as indications to show tho goneral grounds on which awardsmay be made.
Group A.— Raw Materials.
Medals are to bo awarded for novelty in tho modo of obtaining, applying, and adapting RawMaterials and Produce, skill and excellence in known modes of obtaining, applying, or adaptingthem ; comparative excellence in tho quality obtained, combined with utility. Tho value oftho instructivouess of any Series exhibited.
Group B.—Machinery.
Tho Sub-Committoo of tho Chairmon of this Group, for cortain reasons sot forth in theirReport, strongly urgo that if novelty of invention (as far as regards Machinery) bo notaltogether excluded, tire greatest caution should bo used, and tho most jealous scrutinyemployed by Jurors before any Prize whatever bo awarded under such claims for merit.
Class V.— Machines for Direct Use.
Fitness of tho work for tho object sought to bo obtained (which combines almost ovorymerit of Machinery), economy in first cost, durability, economy of maintenance, excellency ofworkmanship.
Class Va. — Carriages.
Successful application of any now Material, with elegance of dosign and excellence of work-manship, strength and lightness, reasonable cheapness.
Note. —Those qualities will apply almost exclusively to Carriages of luxury.