ules and regulations."

Sec. 27 of the special rules and regulations provides that--

"The diplomas or certificates of award for exhibitors shall be
signed by the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company, the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, the secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company, the director of exhibits, and the chief of the
department to which the exhibit pertains."

The foregoing rules clearly required the submission of the names
of all proposed jurors to the Commission for its approval or
disapproval prior to August 1, 1904, except as to nominations to
fill vacancies.

Realizing the necessity for the exercise of great care on the
part of the Commission in the discharge of its duties in the
premises, and the necessity for ample time for investigation as
to the fitness of persons and their willingness to serve as
jurors of awards, the Commission addressed you a letter under
date of May 18, 1904, reading as follows:

"SIR: Inasmuch as objections may be urged to the appointment of
certain persons upon juries of awards, it is the intention of
the National Commission to give public notice, allowing
reasonable time for the filing of any objections that may be
offered to the appointment of any individual on a 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."_

Our files do not show any recognition of this communication by
your company. A short time thereafter the Commission was
unofficially advised that certain jurors had been selected by
the company and were actually exercising the functions of judges
and examiners without notice to or approval by the Commission,
and on the 23d of May, 1905, this fact was duly called to your
attention by letter. Some time later the director of exhibits
appeared befo