DECISIONS
OF

HER MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS
ON POINTS
RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.

April, 1861.

1. Her Majesty’s Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday, the 1st day of May, 1862, for opening the Exhibition.

2. The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.

3. The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick, and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert’s Road, on the west side of the gardens.

4. All works of industry to be exhibited should have been produced since 1850. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissible or not, must, in each case, eventually rest with Her Majesty’s Commissioners.

5. Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of articles, will be allowed to exhibit; but they must state the character in which they do so.

6. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission which the Government of each Foreign Country or Colony may appoint for that purpose; and no article will be admitted from any Foreign Country or Colony without the sanction of such Commission.

7. No rent will be charged to exhibitors.

8. Every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of Raw Materials, Machinery, Manufactures, or Fine Arts, will be admitted to the Exhibition, with the exception of:

   1. Living animals and plants.
   2. Fresh vegetable and animal substances, liable to spoil by keeping.
   3. Detonating or dangerous substances. Copper Caps, or other articles of a similar nature may be exhibited, provided the detonating powder be not inserted; also Lucifer Matches, with imitation tops.
   4. Spirits or alcohols, oils, acids, corrosive salts, and substances of a highly inflammable nature, will only be admitted by special written permission, and in well secured glass vessels.

9. The articles exhibited will be divided into the following classes:

   Section I.
   Class 1. Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgy, and Mineral Products.

   Section II.
   Class 2. Chemical Substances and Products, and Pharmaceutical Processes.
   “ 3. Substances used for Food, including Wines.
   “ 4. Animal and Vegetable Substances used in Manufactures.
   Class 5. Railway Plant, including Locomotive Engines and Carriages.
   “ 6. Carriages not connected with Rail or Tram Roads.
   “ 7. Manufacturing Machines and Tools.
   “ 8. Machinery in general.
   “ 9. Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and Implements.
   Class 10. Civil Engineering, Architectural, and Building Contrivances.
   “ 11. Military Engineering, Armour and Accoutrements, Ordnance, and Small Arms.
   “ 12. Naval Architecture, Ship’s Tackle.
   “ 13. Philosophical Instruments and Processes depending upon their use.
   “ 14. Photographic Apparatus and Photography.
   “ 15. Horological Instruments.
   “ 16. Musical Instruments.
   “ 17. Surgical Instruments and Appliances.

   Section III.
   “ 18. Cotton.
   “ 19. Flax and Hemp.
   “ 20. Silk and Velvet.
   “ 21. Woollen and Worsted, including Mixed Fabrics generally.
   “ 22. Carpets.
   “ 23. Woven, Spun, Felted, and Laid Fabrics, when shown as specimens of Printing or Dyeing.
   “ 24. Tapestry, Lace, and Embroidery.
   “ 25. Skins, Fur, Feathers, and Hair.
   “ 26. Leather, including Saddlery and Harness.
   “ 27. Articles of Clothing.
   “ 28. Paper, Stationery, Printing, and Book-binding.
   “ 29. Educational Works and Appliances.
   “ 30. Furniture and Upholstery, including Paper-hangings and Papier-mâché.
   “ 31. Iron and General Hardware.
   “ 32. Steel and Cutlery.
   “ 33. Works in Precious Metals, and their imitations, and Jewellery.
   “ 34. Glass.
   “ 35. Pottery.
   “ 36. Manufactures not included in previous classes.

   Section IV. — Modern Fine Arts.
   (See Decisions 111—123.)
   Class 37. Architecture.
   “ 38. Paintings in Oil and Water Colours, and Drawings.
   “ 39. Sculpture, Models, Die-sinking, and Intaglios.