d by affidavits, or otherwise, to investigate any charge
of fraud made at any stage of the proceedings, either in the
selection of the jurors or in procuring or making the awards.

Ninth. That under special rule No. 27 neither the superior jury
nor the Exposition Company has the right to issue or promulgate
any diploma, certificate, or other evidence of award for
exhibitors without the signature of the president of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission having been previously
attached thereto by authority of the Commission.

Holding these views and representing the Government of the
United States in these important transactions, the Commission
can not permit the use of its name, nor the name of any of its
officers or members, in connection with any diploma,
certificate, or other evidence of award while any part of the
proceedings rest under adequately supported and uninvestigated
charges of bribery, attempted bribery, corruption, fraud, or
misconduct amounting to fraud.

In view of the position of your company, as announced in your
letter of November 8, from which quotations are herein made, by
direction of the Commission, I hereby notify you to refrain from
using the name of the Commission or of any of its officers or
members in or connected with any diploma, certificate, or other
evidence of award for any exhibit or under special rule No. 27,
until such time as the proposed award shall have been by you
submitted to the Commission for approval, as provided in section
6 of the act of Congress and rule 6 of Article XXII of the
general rules and regulations, which rules we hold to have the
effect of law until modified or repealed by the consent of the
Commission.

Respectfully,
THOS. H. CARTER,
_President_.

Hon. D.R. FRANCIS,
_President Exposition Company_.

A formal acknowledgment of the receipt of the foregoing communication
was received from the Exposition Company on November 30, 1904.

No reply has ever been made to the letter or the subject-matter thereof
on the merits. The allegations therein contained of flagrant violation
of the rules and regulations in the selection and organization of the
juries are strongly supported by the records and the silence of the
officials of the Exposition Company. The charges of fraud and corruption
in connection with certain awards, ref