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Goods intended for exhibition, sent and addressed in accordance with Regulations here-after to be issued, will be admitted into the country, and allowed to be transmitted to the Exhibition Building without being previously opened, and without payment of any duty. But all Goods which shall not be re-exported at the termination of the Exhibition will be charged with the proper duties, under the ordinary Customs Regulations. (105-108.)*

109. It is not the intentions of Her Majesty's Commissioners to take any steps in reference to the protection of Inventions or Designs, by Patent or 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 1862.

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

113. Prices 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 intended to 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 and perfect an illustration as possible, a selection of the works to be exhibited will be indispensable.

119. The selection of Exhibitors, the space and number of works to be allowed to each, and the arrangement of them, will be entrusted to Committees to be nominated by Her Majesty's Commissioners.

120. In the case of living artists, Her Majesty's Commissioners would desire to consult the wishes of the artists themselves as to the particular works by which they would prefer to be represented. The selection of works so made by the artists will not necessarily be binding upon Her Majesty's Commissioners, but in no case will any work by a living artist be exhibited against his wish, if expressed in writing, and delivered to the Commissioners on or before the 31st of March 1862.

121. Her Majesty's Commissioners will avail themselves of the following eight Art Institutions of this country in communicating with artists who are members of those Institutions, viz.:—

The Royal Academy,
The Royal Scottish Academy,
The Royal Hibernian Academy,
The Society of Painters in Water Colours,
The Society of British Artists,
The New Society of Painters in Water Colours,
The Institute of British Artists,
The Institute of British Architects.

122. Intending Exhibitors in the British Division of Section IV., who are not members of any of the preceding Institutions, may at once receive Forms of Demand for Space, by applying to the Secretary to Her Majesty's Commissioners. These Forms must be filled up and returned before the 1st of June 1861.

By order,
F. R. SANDFORD,
Secretary.

Offices of Her Majesty's Commissioners,
454, West Strand, London, W.C.

• Several numbers are left blank, with the view of incorporating future decisions.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Aug. 6, 1861.)

Warrant Appointing Commissioners for International Exhibition of 1862.

His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

TO ALL PERSONS GREETING:

WHEREAS it has been publicly notified that an International Exhibition of Agricultural and Industrial Products will be held at London in the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two: And whereas it has been proposed that a Commission should be appointed in the several Provinces of the Colony of New Zealand, for the purpose of receiving articles the produce or manufacture of the said Colony, and of selecting and transmitting to London such articles as may be thought worthy of exposition in the said International Exhibition, and of communicating with her Majesty's Commissioners in England respecting such transmission: Now Know Ye, that I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the said Colony, have thought fit to constitute and appoint and by these Presents do constitute and appoint the persons hereunder mentioned to be Commissioners in the several Provinces respectively set opposite their names,