notice,
allowing reasonable time for the filing of any objections that
may be offered to the appointment of any individual on the jury.
As this proceeding will necessarily consume time, it is
desirable that the names of persons proposed for the respective
juries be transmitted to the Commission from time to time as the
respective groups are completed by the company. It is believed
that final action can be reached in a more orderly and
satisfactory manner by taking up the names proposed for each
jury separately rather than to have the entire membership of all
the juries submitted for consideration simultaneously.

Yours, very respectfully,
THOS. H. CARTER, _President_.

A communication on the same subject was addressed to the president of
the Exposition Company on May 23, as follows:

MAY 23, 1904.

DEAR SIR: By direction of the Commission, I have the honor to
call your attention to section 6 of the act of Congress making
an appropriation for the exposition, and for other purposes,
approved March 3, 1901, which provides that the appointment of
all judges and examiners for the exposition shall be made by the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, subject to the approval
of the Commission created by section 2 of the act.

Some days ago a gentleman reported to the Commission that
certain jurors had been appointed and were actually discharging
their duties as judges and examiners. This rumor seemed to the
Commission utterly incredible, but this morning the director of
exhibits confirmed the rumor informally by admitting that
certain jurors had been at work for a considerable length of
time in certain departments of the exposition.

The Commission does not desire to assume a position at all
hypercritical, but I am directed to say that an utter disregard
of provisions of the law can not be countenanced.

To the end that no question may arise concerning the legality or
regularity of the action of any jury or board of examiners, I
have the honor to request, in behalf of the Commission, that the
names of jurors be forwarded to the Commission for consideration
before there is any pretense to giving them authority to act.

Inasmuch as an infraction of the law has heretofore occurred
according to the director of exhibits, I can but request that
the names of the jurors who