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They will be interdicted, under pain of expulsion,
from soliciting the attention of visitors, or inducing
them to purchase the articles exhibited.
Art. 39.

The current trade price of any article, at the period
of the Exhibition, may be prominently affixed to it.
Any exhibitor, who may wish to avail himself of this
permission, must announce his intention beforehand to
the local committee of his division, who will sanction
the prices, on having ascertained their correctness.
The price thus affixed must, in case of a sale taking
place, be strictly adhered to by the exhibitor, as regards
the buyer.
In case the declaration should be proved to be false,
the Imperial Commission may order the goods to be re-
moved from the building, and the exhibitor excluded
from exhibiting any longer.
Art. 40.
Articles sold cannot be removed until the close of the
Exhibition.

FOREIGN GOODS.—CUSTOMS..
Art. 41.
With respect to foreign goods admitted to the Exhi-
bition, the Exhibition-Palace will be constituted a
bonded warehouse.
Art. 42.
These goods, accompanied by the bulletins men-
tioned in Art. 19, will enter France by the ports and
frontier-towns here mentioned, viz:
Lisle, Valenciennes, Forbach, Wissemburg, Stras-
burg, Saint-Louis, Les-Verrieres-de-Joux, Pont-de
Beauvoisin, Chapareillan, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Mar-
seilles, Cette, Port-Vendres, Perpignan, Bayonne; Bor-
deaux, Nantes, Havre, Boulogne, Calais, and Dun-
kirk..
Art. 43.
Packages may be directed to agents designated by
the Imperial Commission in each of these ports or
towns. These agents, for a certain amount of remu-
neration Gued beforehand, will undertake the requisite
customhouse formalities, and forward the articles to the
Exhibition-Palace.
Art. 44.
Foreign goods, thus imported into France, will be
received at the Exhibition-Palace, where they will be
taken charge of by the custom-house officers.
Art. 45.
The removal of the lead stamps, and the opening of
the packages, can only take place in the interior of the
Palace, in presence of the exhibitors or of their agents,
and by the custom-house officers.
Art. 46.
One copy of the bulletin sent with each package, to
be considered as certificate of origin, will be retained by
the customs department; another copy will be left with
the commissioner of arrangement at the Exhibition; and
the third will be deposited at the office of the Secretary
of the Imperial Commission.
Art. 47.
Foreign exhibitors, or their agents, will have to de-
clare, after the close of the Exhibition, whether their
goods are intended for re-exportation or for interior
consumption.
In the latter case, they will be at liberty to dispose
of them immediately, after paying the duty, in the fix-
ing of which the customs' authorities will take into
account the depreciation the goods may have undergone
in consequence of their stay in the Exhibition.
Art. 48.
Goods, at all other times prohibited, will, by special
exception, be admitted to interior consumption, on
paying a duty of 20 per cent. on their actual value. That
amount of duty will be the maximum levied on any ar-
cle exhibited.

INTERIOR ORGANIZATION AND POLICE
ARRANGEMENTS.
Art. 49.
The interior organization and police of the Exhibition

are placed under the direction of an Executive Commit-
tee, composed of different heads of department, who
will decide on all questions coming under their jurisdic-
tion.
Art. 50.
A set of regulations, published before the time fixed
for the reception of goods, and posted up within the
building, will decide all points relative to the order of
the interior service, and will designate the persons
charged to assist the exhibitors, and to watch over the
order and security of the Exhibition.
Art. 51.
The agents and officers, attached to the foreign divi-
sions, must speak one or more of the languages of those
nations with which they are to be in communication.
Interpreters, officially designated by the Imperial
Commission, will besides be placed in various parts of
the foreign division.
Art. 52.
Foreign Governments are requested to accredit to the
Imperial Commission, special commissioners, whose
duty it will be to represent their countrymen at the
Exhibition, during the reception, classification, and
placing of the goods, and in all circumstances where
their interests are concerned.

PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
AND INVENTIONS.
Art. 53.
Every exhibitor who is the inventor or legal proprie-
tor of any process machine, or design admitted to the
Exhibition, and not yet registered or patented, may ob-
tain from the Imperial Commission a certificate descrip-
tive of the article exhibited, provided he make an appli-
cation to that effect, before the opening of the Exhibi-
tion, or during the first month after the opening,
Art. 54.
That certificate will secure to the person who re-
ceives it, the property of the article therein described,
as well as the exclusive privilege of employing it to
the best advantage, for the period of one year from the
1st of May, 1855, without prejudice to any patent
which the exhibitor may take out, in the usual manner,
before the expiration of that period,
Art. 55.
Every application for an inventor's certificate should
be accompanied by an accurate description of the object
or objects for which protection is sought, and, should it
be necessary, by a plan or drawing of the said objects.
Art. 56.
These applications, as well as the decisions arrived
at with regard to them, will be inscribed in a register
kept for the purpose, and which will be ultimately de-
posited at the office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Commerce, and Public Works (department of industry)
to serve as a proof, during the period above indicated,
of the validity of the certificates.
Art. 57.
These certificates will be delivered without any
charge.

JURIES AND REWARDS.
Art. 58.
The examination of the articles exhibited, and the
decisions with respect to the rewards to be given, will
be confided to a great international mixed jury. This
jury will be composed of members and deputies, who
will be divided into thirty special juries, corresponding
to the thirty classes mentioned in Art. 16.
Art. 59.
In the division of Products of Industry, the number
of members for each special jury is fixed as follows.
For each of the classes :
Jurors. Deputies.
3, 10, 20, and 23 14 4
2, 6, 16, 18, and 24 12 3
7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 25, & 26 10 2
1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 22, and 27 8 2
In the division of Works of Art,
Classs 28 will have 20
29 14
30 8