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occupy less bulk than two cubic feet, should not be sent separately, but packages under such size containing, as far as possible, the same classes of articles, should be transmitted in combination.

108. Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Customs have laid down the following regulations upon the importation of goods intended for the Exhibition:—

a. All packages containing goods intended for the International Exhibition of 1862 shall be specially reported as such, and shall be addressed to the Commissioners of the International Exhibition, or to one of their officers, and be consigned to a duly accredited agent, and shall be accompanied with a specification of their contents and value. They shall be separately entered as intended for the International Exhibition, and the agents in passing their entries shall specify the full contents of the packages, together with the value.

b. Such packages as may be landed in London shall be forwarded unopened to the Exhibition in charge of an approved licensed carman, accompanied by a cart note from the landing officer, giving a description of the packages and the marks and numbers thereon; and in cases where there may be reason to suppose they contain other goods than those for the Exhibition, they shall also be accompanied by a revenue officer.

c. Packages landed at the out-ports shall be forwarded with a similar note by railway or other public conveyance, under seals of office, direct to the Exhibition, the officers at the respective ports taking care that the packages bear no private address, and that the documents relating thereto be immediately forwarded to the proper officers of Her Majesty’s Customs stationed at the Exhibition.

d. On the arrival of the goods at the Exhibition, no package shall be opened without the knowledge and consent of the officer of Customs, and if the goods be found to agree with the entry or specification, they will, if free, be at once considered as out of charge of the Customs, the entry or declaration being deemed sufficient for all statistical purposes.

e. In the case of all dutiable goods, an account will be taken by the officers of the Crown at the time of the first opening of the packages, but such deficiencies as may occur within the building from any legitimate or unavoidable cause, the officers being fully satisfied thereof, shall not be charged with duty.

f. That the building be considered, for all practical purposes, a “bonded warehouse;” and that in all cases where dutiable goods shall not be exported, but retained for use in this country, the duty shall be assessed by the officer in charge at the building (and received in the Exhibition by a clerk duly appointed for the purpose), in accordance with the practice now existing in regard to articles found in “passengers’ baggage.”

g. In the case of dutiable goods for exportation, an entry shall be passed in the Long Room, and bond given for their due exportation; and on the receipt of this entry by the officer in charge of the building the goods shall be packed in his presence, and, if for shipment at an out-port, placed under seal, and forwarded in charge to a railway or other public company; but if for shipment at London they shall then be sent in charge of Customs officers, at the expense of the exporter, to be delivered into the charge of the searcher of the station from which they are to be shipped, without further examination, under the regulations applicable to goods shipped direct from the warehouse.

109. It is not the intention of Her Majesty’s Commissioners to make any exceptions in reference to the protection of Inventions or Designs, by Patent of Registration, the law on these points having been materially simplified since 1851.

DECISIONS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO

SECTION IV.—MODERN FINE ARTS.

Class 37. Architecture.

“ 38. Paintings in Oil and Water Colours and Drawings.

“ 39. Sculpture, Models, Die-sinking and Intaglios.

“ 40. Engravings and Etchings.

110. The object of the Exhibition being to illustrate the progress and present condition of Modern Art, each country will decide the period of Art which in its own case will best attain that end.

111. The Exhibition of British Art in this Section will include the works of artists alive on or subsequent to the 1st of May 1762.

112. It is not proposed to award PRIZES in this Section.

113. PRIZES will not be allowed to be affixed to any work of Art exhibited in this Section.

114. One half of the space to be allotted to Section IV. will be given to Foreign Countries, and one half will be reserved for the works of British and Colonial Artists.

115. The subdivision of the space allotted to Foreign Countries will be made, after consideration of the demands received from the Commission, or other Central Authority, of each Foreign Country. It is, therefore, important that these demands should be transmitted to Her Majesty’s Commissioners at the earliest possible date.

116. The arrangement of the Works of Art within the space allotted to each Foreign Country will be entirely under the control of the accredited representatives of that country, subject only to the necessary general regulations.

117. For the purposes of the Catalogue, it will be necessary that the Central Authority of each Foreign Country should furnish Her Majesty’s Commissioners, on or before the 1st of January 1862, with a description of the several Works of Art which will be sent for exhibition, specifying in each case, the name of the artist, the title of the work, and (when possible) the date of its production.

118. The space at the disposal of Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the display of British Art being limited, and it being at the same time desirable to bring together as careful