36 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 
GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR FOREIGN 
EXHIBITORS. 
t.- The Exhibition will be held on the shore of Lake 
Michigan, in the city of Chicago, and will be opened on the 
Ist day of May, 1893, and closed on the 30th day of October 
following. 
2. All governments have been invited to appoint com- 
missions for the purpose of organizing their departments of 
the Exhibition. The Director-General should be notified of 
the appointment of such foreign commissions as soon as the 
appointment is made. 
Diagrams of the buildings and grounds will be furnished 
to the foreign commissions on or before January 1, 1892, 
indicating the localities to be occupied by each nation, sub- 
ject, however, to revision and readjustment. 
3. Applications for space and negotiations relative thereto 
must be conducted with the commission of the country where 
the article is produced. : 
4. Foreign commissions are requested to notify the 
Director-General not later than June 1, 1892, whether they 
desire any increase or diminution of the space offered them, 
and the amount. 
5. Before November 1, 1892, the foreign commissions 
must furnish the Director-General with approximate plans 
showing the manner of allotting the space assigned to them, 
and also with lists of their exhibitors and other information 
necessary for the preparation of the official catalogue. 
Products brought into the United States at the ports of 
Portland, Me.; Boston, Mass.; New York, N. Y.; Philadel- 
phia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Norfolk, Va.; Newport News, 
Va.; Key West, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; New Orleans, La.; Gal- 
veston, Tex.; San Francisco, Cal.; Port Townsend, Wash.; 
Portland, Ore.; Port Huron, Mich.; Detroit, Mich.; and 
Chicago, Ill., or at any other port of entry, intended for dis- 
