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by or through such commissioners.
ART. 6. No exhibit shall be removed in whole or in part until the close
of the exposition.

Immediately after the close of the exposition exhibitors shall remove
their effects and complete such removal before January 1, 1904.
ART. 7. Exhibits from foreign countries will be admitted free of
customs duties, as provided in the law and the regulations of the
Treasury Department.
ART. 8. The Exposition Company may from time to time, with the
approval of the National Commission, promulgate a classification and
such additional rules and regulations, not in conflict with the law or
regulations herein announced, as may be necessary to facilitate the
success of the exposition and to serve the interest of exhibitors.
On October 15, 1901, the Commission was notified that the Exposition
Company had, by a resolution dated October 8, 1901, of which the
Secretary of the Treasury had been duly notified, authorized the
Commission to disburse the sum of $10,000 per annum for contingent
expenses, in accordance with the act of Congress therein referred to.
Following is a copy of the resolution:
Resolved, That the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission be, and
is hereby, authorized to disburse out of the $5,000,000 appropriated
under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1901, in aid of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the sum of $10,000 annually for
contingent expenses of said Commission under such rules and
regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and
upon vouchers to be approved by him.
D.R. FRANCIS.
Attest: W.B. STEVENS, Secretary.
The question of appointing a board of lady managers, authorized by
section 6 of the act of Congress, was considered by the National
Commission and the Exposition Company at a meeting held on October
16, 1901.
After giving the matter due and careful consideration, the Commission

and the company decided to create a board of lady managers of 21
members. The membership of the board was subsequently increased to
24. The names of the board of lady managers are as follows:
Miss Helen Miller Gould. Mrs. John A. McCall. Mrs. John M.
Holcombe. Miss Anna L. Dawes. Mrs. W.E. Andrews. Mrs.
Helen-Boice Hunsicker. Mrs. James L. Blair. Mrs. Fannie L. Porter.
Mrs. Frederick M. Hanger. Mrs. Jennie Gilmore Knott. Mrs. Emily
Warren Roebling. Mrs. M.H. De Young. Mrs. Belle L. Everest. Mrs.
Margaret P. Daly. Mrs. W.H. Coleman. Mrs. C.B. Buchwalter. Mrs.
Louis D. Frost. Mrs. Finis P. Ernst. Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery.
Mrs. John Miller Horton. Mrs. Annie McLean Moores. Mrs. A.L. Von
Mayhoff. Mrs. Daniel Manning. Mrs. James Edmund Sullivan. Miss
Lavinia H. Egan.
Rules and regulations for the classification of exhibits at the exposition,
which had been presented for the consideration of the Commission by
the Exposition Company, and which had been discussed at length, were
finally approved on October 17, 1901, and the Exposition Company
was notified of that fact.
The matter of formulating rules and regulations for the government of
the exposition was one of the first questions to be considered by the
Commission. The matter was taken up at the various meetings of the
Commission, and conferences were held with the officers of the
Exposition Company from time to time. The Commission contended
that in the event of a disagreement between the representative of any
foreign government and the Exposition Company the representative of
such foreign government should be allowed to refer the matter to the
National Commission for joint consideration and adjustment with the
company. With that end in view the Commission insisted that the
following provision should be incorporated in the rules and regulations
governing the exposition:
Should disagreement arise between the Exposition Company and the
representative of any Government, State, Territory, or District, such
representative shall have the privilege, under such rules of procedure as
the National Commission may from time to time promulgate, of

referring the matter in disagreement between such representative and
the company to the National Commission for joint consideration and
adjustment with the company.
The company objected to the insertion of this clause.
Thereupon the Commission and the company agreed to submit the
matter in dispute to arbitration, in accordance with law. The
Commission notified the company that the members of the arbitration
board appointed by the Commission were prepared to meet the
arbitrators of the company when such last-named arbitrators should be
appointed. But owing to the fact that the arbitrators on behalf of the
company had not yet been appointed, it was impossible at the time to
submit the matter in controversy to arbitration.
In November, 1901, it became evident that the success of the
exposition demanded the immediate promulgation of the rules and
regulations for the guidance of intending competitors. The Exposition
Company communicated with the National Commission to that effect
and requested that it be allowed