XXWI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



{Sec. 4. Tliat the Secretary of State of the United States shall, iui 

 iiuMliately after the passajie of this act, notify the governors of the 

 si'vcial States and Territories, respectively, thereof and re(iuest such 

 nominations to be made. The commissioners so ai)|>ointed shall be 

 called touetlier by the Secretary of State of the United States in the 

 citv of (Miicajio, i)y notice to the commissioners, as soon as convenient 

 after the appointment of said commissioners, and witnin thirty days 

 thereafter. The said commissioners, at said first meetinj,^, shall organ- 

 ize by the election of siu-h oHicers and tiie appointment of snch com- 

 mittees as they may deem expedient, and for this ])nri)osc the commis- 

 sioners present at said meeting shall constitnte a (piornm. 



Sec. T). That said commission be empowered in its discretion to 

 accept for the pnrposes of the World's ( 'olnmbiii.n Exi)ositiou snch site 

 as may be selected and ottered and snch plans and specifications of 

 buildings to be erected for snch pnrpose at the expense of and tendered 

 by the cori)oration organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, 

 known as "The World's Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 two:" Frorichd, That said site so tendered, and the buildings pro- 

 l)Osed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commission ade- 

 quate to the puiposesof said exposition : And provided, That said com- 

 mission shall be satistied that the said corporation has an actual buna 

 tide and valid subscription to its capital stock which will secure the 

 l»ayment of at least five millions of dollars, of which not less than five 

 linndred thousand dollars shall have been paid in, and that the further 

 sum of five million dollars, making in all ten million dollars, will be 

 provided by said cori)oration in ample time for its needful use during 

 the ])rosecution of the work for the complete preparation for said 

 exposition. 



Sec. (). That the said commission shall allot space for exhibitors, 

 l>repare a classitication of exhibits, determine the plan and scope of 

 the exposition, and shall appoint all judges and examiners for the ex- 

 j)()sition, award all i)reminms, if any, and generally have charge of all 

 intercourse with the exhibitors and the representatives of foreign 

 nations. And said commission is authorized and required to appoint a 

 board of lady managers of such number and to perform such duties as 

 may be prescribed by said commission. Said board may appoint one 

 or more meml)er8 of all committees authorized to award prizes for 

 exhibits, which may be produced in whole or in part by female labor. 



Sec. 7. That after the plans for said exposition shall be prei)ared by 

 said corporation and approved by said commission, the rules and regu- 

 lations of said corporiition governing rates for entrance and admission 

 fees, or otherwise aflecting the rights, privileges, or interests of tin', 

 exhibitors or of the public, shall be lixed or established by said corj)©- 

 ration, subject, however, to such modilication, if an}', as may be im- 

 l)t)sed Ity a nuijority of said commissioners. 



Sec. 8. That the President is hereby empowered and directed to 

 hold a naval review in New York Harbor, in April, eighteen hundred 

 ami ninety-three, aiul to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send 

 sliips of war to Join the l-nited States JNavy in rendezvous at llami)- 

 ton Roads and proceed thence to said review. 



Se<'. t>. Tliat said commission shall provide for the dedication of the 

 buildings of the World's Columbian Exi)osition in said city of Chicago 

 on the twelfth day of Octiber, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, with 

 approi)riate ceremonies, and said exposition shall be open to visitors 

 not later than the tirst day of May, eighteen hu.ulred and ninety-three, 



