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j v SYSTEM OF AWARDS. by the Commission of each country, in conformity with the distribution and allotment to each, adopted by the United States Centennial Com mission. The Judges from the United States have been appointed by the Centennial Commission. To facilitate the examination by the Judges of the articles exhibited, they have been classified in Groups. To each of these. Groups a competent number of Judges (Foreign and American) has been assigned by the United States Centennial Commission. Besides these, certain objects in the De partments of Agriculture and Horticulture, which will form temporary exhibitions, have been arranged in special Groups, and Judges will be assigned to them hereafter. The Judges will meet for organization on May 24, at 12 m., at the Judges’ Pavilion. They will enter upon the work of examination with as little delay as practicable, and will recommend awards without regard to the nationality of the exhibitor. The Judges assigned to each Group will choose from among themselves a Chairman and a Secretary. They must keep regular minutes of their pro ceedings. Reports recommending awards shall be made and signed by a Judge in each Group, stating the grounds of the proposed award, and such reports shall be accepted, and the acceptance signed, by a majority of the: Judges in such Group. The reports of the Judges recommending awards based on the standards of merit referred to in the foregoing System of Awards, must be returned to the Chief of the Bureau of Awards not later than July 31, to be trans mitted by him to the Centennial Commission. Awards will be finally decreed by the United States Centennial Com mission, in compliance with the Act of Congress of June 1, 1872, and will consist of a special report of the Judges on the subject of the Award, together with a Diploma and a uniform Bronze Medal. Upon matters not submitted for competitive trial, and upon such others as may be named by the Commission, the Judges will prepare reports show ing the progress made during the past hundred years. Vacancies in the corps of Judges will be filled by the authority which made the original appointment. No exhibitor can be a Judge in the Group in which he exhibits. An exhibitor, who is not the manufacturer or producer of the article exhibited, shall not be entitled to an award. The Chief of the Bureau of Awards will be the representative of the United States Centennial Commission in its relations to the Judges. Upon request, he will decide all questions which may arise during their proceed ings in regard to the interpretation and application of the rules adopted by the Commission relating to awards, subject to an appeal to the Commis sion. A. T. GOSHORN, Director- General.