IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) ^ &?- ^ 4< 1.0 I.I 1^ 1^ 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.8 II 1.25 jU. ||l.6 < 6" ► 7 Photographic Sciences Corporation '^o '1 ^>;^ ^j<> ' bulky, arjd will require a larger amount of space than the produce likely to come from other countries, though the hilter may be much the more valuable. It thus becomes iinposslble, In the absence of infonnatlon from each country, to lay ihiwn rules which shall not be open to objection. At the same time, the Comniissioners feel that it is better at once to tlve a definite and tangible shape to their'proccedings by laying down something in the nature of a rule, however arbltrarv, than to postjione the attempt till tliey are in possession of infcirination which cannot be collected for a very long time. They liave therefore resolved thai they will allot oue-lmlf of the total amount of space at their command to the prtxluctions of Great Dritain and her colonies, and will divide the remaining half among the other nations of the world ; communicating to e.irli country the space they propose to set aside for Its productions, and recpiesting Information as to the mode In which it Is proposed that such space sliould be filled. In ease the Central Authority In any country should be of opinion that the space allotted to the prcMJuctions of that country is greater than It will require, the Commissioners have to re(|uest that this opinion may be communicated to them, as It Is obvious that it would not appear well if a large vacant space should be left in the department awigned to any country. If, on thts other liand, any country require more tlutn the ipitoo proposed, thii* also should be stated, as it may be in the power of the CommiHsioners to give additional room, in the event of having received notifications from other countries that a portion of the space assigned to them will not be occupied. The Commissioners have had under their serious consideration the question whether it would be desirable tu marl( off particular spaces, and assign them to particular countries, allowing each to arrange the whole of its pro- ductions wilhin those limits; but they adhere to the conclusion which thev have already announced, that this course will not be desirable, and that it will be necessary that the productions os all nations should be exhibited together, according to the classification of objects ;rhich the Commissioners have made, witli a subordinate classification as tu nationc in each section. They consider that the effect which the Exhibition is intended to produce— of showing, at one view, the points which human industry and ingenuity have reached in the arts of civilized Iif<) — would be mate- rially (Hniinished if the results of the industry of different nations in each department were scattered over a large Hpace instead of being conveniently brouglit together. The Visitor would receive a very inadequate notion of the perfeotion to which particular manufactures can be carried from an inspection of those of one nation only ; and in a building of such extent it would be out of his power to go from a particular section in one Exhibition to the corre- sponding sections in all the other national Exhibitions, und to compare them all. Again, unless the productions of all nations are cxhi' ited together, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to award the palm of superiority. Different parts of the Kxliibition will be visited on different days, and the impressions made on one day by the manufactures of one country, will be effaced the next day by the corresponding manufactures of another. In the adjudication of Pri'^es also such arrangements woidd cause much difflculty. Another objection may also be mentioned, namely the danger tiiere would be of imputed unfairness and fkvouritism in the places assigned to diflbrent nations. The several artichw which will be exhibited will require great diversity of accommodation, as respects space, light, and other particulars ; and were tlifi space set apart for one nation inferior in any of these respects to the space set apart for iirij o^her nation, there would be ground for complaint ; whereos if all articles of the same nature are exhibited fogetlier, all will share these advantages alike, and each article will be placed in that part of the building which is best adapted for the reception of goods of tlrnt description. The Commissioners must therefore reserve to them- selves the unfettered right of arranging all goods that may be sent in such manner as they may think jiroper. They will endeavour, in the case of articles the nature of which admits of their so doing, to arrange each section with some reference to the nationality of the productions exhibited in it, and will not intermix the productions of one country with those of another, in cases where the objects of the Exhibition can be attained without their doing so. What- ever may be tlicir arrangements, however, they undertake to find places for all articles sent by each country which could, if placed together, be exhibited in the aggregate space allotted to that country, provided only that they be informed in sufficient time what proportion of that space will be required for Raw Materials, what proportion for Macliinery, what pro|X)rtion for tianufactured Articles, and what proportion for objects of Fine Art. This information shotdd be sent on o" before the days which will be communicated to each country. The Commissioners annex a Memorandum by the Commissioners of Customs, on the subject of Custom House arrangcnient.s. A Statement will shortly l)e published on the subject of the Adjudication and Distribution of Priies. It may, liowever, l)c desiralilo at once to state that, in all ca.ses in wliich the competition is between Exhibitors of ditfenuit nations, tlu! Prizes will be adjudged by mixed Juries of English and Foreigners. Anil a statement will also be published of the arrangements to be made for the protection of articles wliieh may be exhibited, from jiiracy. .1. SCOTT RUSSELL, i STAFFORD H. XORTHCOTE, I *'''■'''<"■'''* mmmmmim^i^y ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS FOB THE ADMISSION OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PRODUCTIONS, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE EXHIBITION OF 1881, WITHOUT DUTY. ■■•' \ ■' " / . ■'V;--W-.vv';'. '-'.»"■'■;<'■.-,' -tV ^'i .;' - , ..:■,...:■...,.;.-,:.:. It is proposed that all work* from Foreign Countries intended for exhibition, shall be imported into some one or other of the following Ports : — ' > , , . , . LiVBRrooL, ■ '; ... Bristol, - " ■•: Hull, ,.', ; ' ■ > ■■; '-.'':■ . NbWCA»1X«, ; , f ,■.'•-■■ ■' ' ' '-■.'"'''".'.; Dover, '-^;;. ■.< ::■■■■-;■, : • i,:' ■■ ■, ^ .- ' , ■ FOLKCSTONK, SOUTHAMFTON. That the paclutges, when unaccompanied by the Proprietors, shall be addressed to Agents, who will be appointed at each Fort by the Royal Commissioners to receive and talie charge of all such packages, and whose names will be communicated to the Central Authorities in each country, and from among whom the several parties intending to send over articles for exhibition, may select the Agent he proposes to employ, The Agents will take all the needful steps for forwarding, under the directions of the Commissioners of the Customs, the packages unopened to London (where they are not imported direct into the Port of London), and for their delivery unopentd ^t the building in which they are to l>e exhibited. In the case of packages imported into the Port of London, the Agent to whom they will be addressed will take charge of them on their arrival, and forward them unopened to the building for exhibition. To secure the arrival of all the packages unopened and unexamined at the place of exhibition, they will be sealed at the Port of landing, with the official seal of the Board of Customs, which will afford a guarantee at the same time to the party and to the Revenue. Tlie whole of the goods will be admitted, in the first instance, without payment of any duty ; and if they are not disposed of in England they will be delivered up for re-exportation, free of all charge for duty. If, however, they shall l>e disposed of in Eugland, the duty chargeable thereon must in that case be paid before they are removed from the phice of Exhibition, but they cannot be removed until the Exhibition is finally closed. When the packages have been duly deposited in the building in which they are to be exhibited, they will be opened and examined in the presence of the Proprietor, Dr of the Agent in his behalf, and will then be in custody of the Commission, without whose authority they cannot be removed from the Exhibition . XU goods which are forwarded to England will remain deposited in charge of the Customs, luitil claimed by an agent of the party sending them, who will have to establish his right to remove them to the building, by producing tlie bill of lading, and the certificate given to the Exhibitor by the Central Authorities in each country, that such ifoods are intended for exposition. I . \ London.; KHnted by William CuiWit antl StiKh, Numtonl Strr'i mmm^^^f I ■■mMPRMP ^• . \ ''■'.'' »-^T \- '- '*'- ' t