Chapter IV: Section I: For the development of the exposition to the full
extent of the general plan as outlined, provision will be made
for the installation and care of exhibits, and for the
construction of exhibition palaces, ample and adequate to the
theoretical and physical scope of the exposition.
SEC. II. For the purposes of installation and review of exhibits
a classification has been adopted. The classification heretofore
adopted has been divided into a number of departments, each of
which is again divided into groups and subdivided into classes.
Under this scope and plan the exposition will be constructed,
the installation perfected, and the system of awards conducted.
In conformity therewith the following exhibit departments are
created: Department A--Education; Department B--Art; Department
C--Liberal Arts; Department D--Manufactures; Department
E--Machinery; Department F--Electricity; Department
G--Transportation; Department H--Agriculture; Department
J--Horticulture; Department K--Forestry; Department L--Mines and
Metallurgy; Department M--Fish and Game; Department
N--Anthropology; Department O--Social Economy; Department
P--Physical Culture.
Exhibits shall be classified into 15 departments, in 144 groups,
and in 807 classes.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION I. The directors of the four executive divisions, and
the chief of the different departments thereunder, may
promulgate special rules and regulations governing the more
minute and technical details of the operation of the respective
departments.
SEC. II. The director of exhibits shall have general charge of
the installation of all exhibits and the control and management
of the same.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION I. The general classification is hereby made a part of
these rules and regulations.
SEC. II. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company reserves the
right, subject to the approval of the Commission, to amend or
correct the classification at any time before the opening of the
exposition by giving thirty days' public notice.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION I. The price of admission will be 50 cents.
SEC. II. While the broadest construction will be placed upon the
rights of exhibitors and their agents to free admission to the
grounds for the purpose of caring for their respective exhibits,
it is intended to restrict these courtesies within reasonable
limits.
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION I. No charge will be made for space allotted for
exhibits.
SEC. II. No charge will be made for space allotted for buildings
of foreign governments, or the United States Government, or of
the State, Territorial, or District governments of the United
States.
ARTICLE VII.
SECTION I. Exhibitors of manufactured articles must be the
manufacturers or producers thereof.
SEC. II. The country where an exhibit is produced, and not the
citizenship of the exhibitor, will determine the nationality of
an exhibit.
SEC. III. Each foreign nation participating in the exposition
will be accorded an official representative, to be accredited to
the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company,
through the Secretary of State of the United States, or
otherwise.
SEC. IV. Allotment of space to exhibitors from countries where
governments have appointed official representatives to the
exposition will be made by or through such representatives.
SEC. V. While it is expected, as far as possible, to confine
negotiations in the United States to the official
representatives of the respective States, Territories, and
Districts, the right is reserved to confer directly with
individuals.
ARTICLE VIII.
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