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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JULY, 1887.
The following are excluded:---
1. Unframed pictures or drawings.
2. Sculpture in unbaked clay.
The duty of deciding upon the admission of works of art will devolve upon a special committee. Suitable space, which will be lighted by electricity, will be reserved for the exhibition of paintings. Other regulations will give information as to the despatch-and reception of works of art.
FIRE, ACCIDENTS, ETC.
22. The Executive Commissioners will take precautions for the safe preservation of all objects in the Exhibition, but will be in no way responsible for damage or loss of any kind, or accidents by fire or otherwise, however caused. In order, however, to reduce the danger of fire to a minimum, a special fire brigade will be formed, and be available, in connexion with the Exhibition, from the time of the reception of exhibits to its close.
INSURANCE, ETC.
23. Facilities will be afforded the representatives of countries and colonies, and private exhibitors, for insuring their goods; and they may also employ watchmen, at their own expense, to guard their goods during the hours the Exhibition is open to the public. The appointment of such watchmen will be subject to the approval of the Executive Commissioners. These persons must wear a special dress or distinctive badge.
AWARDS.
24. The following is the system under which the awards will be made :- The awards will be based upon written reports adopted by the Jurors.
The Jurors will be selected for their qualifications and character, and shall be experts in the departments to which they are especially assigned; the British, Foreign, and Colonial Jurors shall be nominated by the representatives of each country or colony exhibiting, and, if ap proved of, will be appointed by the Executive Commissioners, who will appoint those for Victoria. Jurors will be reimbursed such personal expenses as may be allowed by the Executive Commis-
sioners.
The Jurors' reports and the Executive Commissioners' awards will be based upon the inherent and comparative merits of the individual exhibits, the elements of merit being held to include considerations relating to originality, invention, discovery, utility, quality, skill, workman- ship, fitness for the purposes intended, adaptation to public wants, economy, cost, and im- portance of interests involved.
Each report must be delivered to, the Secretary to the Executive Commissioners as soon as
completed.
Awards will consist of gold, silver, and bronze medals, and certificates of honorable mention, together with a special report of the Jurors on the subject of the award. A certificate will accompany each medal.
Each exhibitor shall have the right to produce and publish the report awarded to him, but the Executive Commissioners reserve the right to publish and dispose of all reports in any manner they may think best for public information.
25. Immediately after the close of the Exhibition, exhibitors or their duly-appointed agents shall remove their effects, and complete such removal by the 31st March, 1889. Goods then remaining will be removed by the orders of the Executive Commissioners, and sold by auction, or otherwise disposed of, under the direction of the Executive Commissioners, and the net proceeds handed to the exhibitors or their duly-appointed agents.
26. Every person who becomes an exhibitor thereby acknowledges, and undertakes to observe, the rules and regulations established from time to time for the government of the Exhibition.
27. The Executive Commissioners reserve the right to alter, explain, amend, or add to these regulations, at any time, whatever may be deemed necessary.
Information upon any question of details can be obtained upon application to.
THE AGENT-GENERAL FOR VICTORIA,
8 VICTORIA CHAMBERS,
VICTORIA STREET,
WESTMINSTER,
LONDON, S.W.,
or to
THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONERS,
CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1888,
MELBOURNE, Australia.
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