AMERICAN DEPARTMENT. 
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VI.—Experts. 
The Section Juries may increase their numbers by the addition of Jurors from other sections of any of the 
different groups, and also by inviting the co-operation of-Experts who are not members of the Jury. 
The Experts must be proposed at a full meeting forming a quorum of the respective Section Juries by a 
member or the Representative of the Director-General, and elected by an an absolute majority. 
The names of these Experts chosen will be published by the General Manager. 
VII.—Representation of the General Manager at the Jury Meetings. 
The General Manager will appoint Delegates, who will be entitled to take pari in the deliberations of the 
Jury with a consultative voice. These Delegates will have to provide everything necessary for the different 
trials and decisions of the Jury. 
VIII.—Representation of the Foreign Commissions at the Jury Meetings. 
The Commissioners of Foreign States are entitled to take part in the deliberations of the Jury, either 
personally or by a Delegate appointed by themselves. 
IX.—Sectional Juries. 
The Classification of the Groups published on the löth September, 1871, will be taken as a basis for the 
proceedings of the Juiy. In Order to facilitate the examination of the objects exhibited, the Juries of the single 
Groups will be subdivided into Sections. [See pages 28, et seq.] 
In judging the Working Machines (Group XIII., Section 2), as also the plans, models, and arrangemenls 
of Industrial Buildings and other objects to be examined from several points of view, competent persons who 
are judges of the performances and productions of the respective machines, manufactories, &c., are to be 
selected from the other Sections of the Jury with the right of voting. 
X.—Organisation and Sphere of Action of Sectional Juries. 
Each Sectional Jury on being constituted chooses rom among its members a Chairman, a Deputy Chair 
man, and one or more Reporters. 
A Sectional Jury can be constituted as soon as there are at least three regulär members to form a 
quorum. 
In default of this number of members, the Work of the section will be delegated by the Group Jury to 
one or several of the other Sections. 3 
Each Sectional Jury has to examine the objects which are classed in their respective Sections and to 
propose, after the completion of the examination, the prizes to be awarded. 
These propositions must be submitted to the Group Jury for approval. 
XI.—Organisation and Sphere of Action of the Group Juries. 
Eyery Group Jury is to consist of all the members of the Sections into which the respective Groups are 
subdivided. r ^ 
, The Resident and the two Vice-Presidents of each Group Jury will be nominated bv his Imnerial 
Highness the Archduke-President of the Imperial Commission. ^ 
The Reporters of the Group Juries are elected by the members from their own number. 
The Group Jury decides on the distribution of the work to be done by the Sections which have not vet 
constituted themselves, on the propositions of the Sectional Juries, and proposes the award of the Dinlomas 
of Honour. r 
The President, the Vice-Presidents, 
Presidents. 
XII.—The Presidents’ Council. 
and the Reporters of the Group Juries form the Council of 
The President and two Vice-Presidents of this Council will be appointed by His Imperial Hinhuess tb P 
Archduke-President ofthe Imperial Austrian Commission. 1 nignness tne 
The Council of Presidents will decide on questions of principle which may be proposed by the Group 
Junes ; they will decide on the propositions for awarding the Diploma of Honour, and will receive the final 
reports of the Group Juries which are to be submitted to His Imperial Highness the Archduke President nf 
the Imperial Austrian Commission.