The department juries shall
choose their own officers,
consisting of a chairman,
three vice-chairmen, and a secretary.
The chairman and first vice-chairman
shall be, one a citizen of
the United States, and the
other a citizen of a foreign country.
The secretary may be selected
by the members of the jury from a
list of persons recommended
by the director of exhibits.
13. Each department jury
shall complete its organization and
begin its work on September
20, 1904.
The duties of these juries shall be to consider carefully and review the reports of the group juries; to harmonize any differences that may exist between the recommendations of the several group juries as to awards, and to adjust all awards recommended so that they will be consistent with the rules and regulations.
No more than ten days may be devoted to this work, and when the awards recommended by the group juries have been adjusted, the department juries shall, through the chiefs of their respective departments, submit their findings to the director of exhibits, who shall, within five days after the receipt thereof, certify the same to the superior jury, including such work as may have been left incomplete by the department jury.
14. The officers and members of the superior jury shall be as follows: President, the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company; first vice-president, the director of exhibits; second vice-president, a citizen of the United States to be named by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission. The members of the jury shall further consist of the commissioners-general of the nine foreign countries occupying with exhibits the largest amounts of space in the exhibit palaces; the chairman and first vice-chairman of the department juries; the chiefs of the exhibit departments, and one person appointed by the board of lady managers.
Two additional vice-presidents
and such other officers as may be
required shall be elected
by the superior jury from the members
herein provided for.
No chief of a department shall represent more than a single department. The president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall appoint from the United States membership of the department juries such other members as may be necessary to give to each exhibit department of the exposition a representative on the superior jury.
There shall also be a secretary
of the superior jury, who may be
selected by the members of
the jury from a list of persons
recommended by the president
of the jury.