REGULATIONS GOVERNING AWARDS. 
Rute I. Conformably to the determination of the Commis- 
sion, “awards shall be granted upon specific points of excellence 
or advancement formulated in words by a board of judges or 
examiners, who shall be competent experts.” 
BOARD OF JUDGES, 
Rute II. This board of judges, which shall be composed, 
so far as practicable, of competent experts, shall be divided into 
thirteen committees, one of which shall be assigned to each of 
the thirteen great departments of the Exposition, as recognized 
by the classification adopted by the World’s Columbian Commis- 
sion. The number of judges composing this board, and each 
committee thereof, shall hereafter be determined. There shall 
be one or more women judges upon all committees authorized to 
award prizes for exhibits which may be produced in whole or in 
part by female labor, aad the number of women upon such com- 
mittee shall be hereafter determined according to the method 
heretofore prescribed by said Commission, after conference with 
the President of the Board of Lady Managers and the Awards 
Committee thereof. 
INDIVIDUAL JUDGES. 
Rute Ill. The individual members of the said thirteen 
committees shall be, so far as possible, competent experts, and 
shall perform such duties and examine such exhibits as shall be 
assigned them by the Executive Committee on Awards. There 
shall be a foreign representation upon each one of these thirteen 
committees, and the number of foreign judges will be fixed when 
the character and extent of the participation of the various for- 
eign nations shall have been ascertained, 
Rue IV. Each committee shall, at the call of the Execu- 
tive Committee on Awards, organize by the election of a presi- 
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