268 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



PRINTING CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION REPORT. 



[No. 21."] Joint resolntiou to print five thousand copies of the report of the Board 

 on behalf of the United States Executive Departments at the International Exhibition 

 of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Bepresentatives of the United 

 States af America in Congress assembled, That there be printed and 

 bound, in continuation of the series of volumes heretofore published by 

 Congress under joint resolution of June twentieth, eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-nine, containing the final report of the United States Cen- 

 tennial Commission on the International Exhibition of eighteen hun- 

 dred and seventy-six, and uniform therewith, five thousand copies of 

 the report of the Board on behalf of the United States Executive De- 

 partments at said Exhibition, being the report which was submitted to 

 Congress .by the President of the United States, by special message of 

 February ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and again in his 

 annual message of December third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

 seven, of which number three thousand copies shall be for the House, 

 one thousand copies for the Senate, two hundred copies for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for distribution to such foreign governments and 

 others as made contributions from such Exhibition to the National 

 Museum, three hundred copies for the late members of said Board, and 

 five hundred copies for distribution by the late president of the Cen- 

 tennial Commission, the printing to be done by the Public Printer, 

 under the supervision of the late chairman of said Boardj upon whose 

 order may be allowed by the Public Printer to the.late secretary of the 

 Board not exceeding three hundred dollars for services to be performed, 

 and incidental expenses to be incurred in connection therewith : Pro- 

 vided, That the photographic views of the Government exhibit accom- 

 panying the manuscript report shall not be printed or reproduced for 

 the publication herein authorized. 



(Approved March 3, 1883. Statutes, xxii, pp. 640, 641.) 



SOUTnERN EXPOSITION AT LOUISVILLE, KY. 



Chap. 99. — An act relative to the Southern Exposition to be held in the city of 

 Louisville, State of Kentucky, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. 



Whereas ample means have been provided for holding, during the 

 present year, in the city of Louisville, State of Kentucky, of an exjwsi- 

 tion of the productsof agriculture, manufactures, and the fine arts; and 



Whereas the objei-ts of such an exposition should commend them- 

 selves to Congress, and its success should be promoted by all reasona- 

 ble encouragement, provided it can be done without expense to the gen- 

 eral public: Therefore, 



