e, but that they had been instructed to make
suggestions that they might keep the chairmanship of the juries
in the hands of the Americans.

We find that a large number of group jurors have been appointed,
have participated in making awards, have been paid off, and have
gone home without their names ever having been submitted to the
National Commission for approval.

We are informed that the course adopted by the chiefs in the
organization of the group juries was pursued when it came to the
organization of the department juries, and in this way the
chiefs, in violation of the rules, have selected the main body
of the superior jury. We were also informed that the department
juries were instructed to pass the matters that we think would
properly belong to that body up to the superior jury;
consequently the principal duty performed by the department jury
was to enable the chiefs to select two members for the superior
jury. We have been informed that the chiefs in some departments
have taken it upon themselves to forbid the jurors from
considering certain matters that were proper subjects for their
consideration.

In paragraph 15 of said rules and regulations it is provided
that if for any reason an award is not satisfactory to an
exhibitor he may file notice to that effect with the president
of the superior jury within three days after the official
notification of the award; this notice shall be followed within
seven days by a written statement setting forth at length his
views as to wherein the award is unjust. We see now that the
superior jury has been disbanded within three or four days after
most of the exhibitors received their official notification,
thus cutting off the opportunity of exhibitors who were
dissatisfied with the awards to present their cases as provided
for by the rules.

We are also informed that instead of the superior jury hearing
any protests or complaints of the awards, these were referred to
subboards or subjuries made up in the main of jurors who had
been brought up by the chiefs from the various group juries to
the superior jury by the methods heretofore described.

We have also been informed by a gentleman who attempted to make
a protest and get a hearing before these subcommittees so
organized with the superior jury that he was infor