XXXVI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



Sec. 4. That the Secretary of State of the United States shall, im- 

 mediately after the passage of this act, notify the governors of the 

 several States and Territories, respectively, thereof and request such 

 nominations to be made. The commissioners so appointed shall be 

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

 city of Chicago, by notice to the commissioners, as soon as convenient 

 after the appointment of said commissioners, and vvitnin thirty days 

 thereafter. The said commissioners, at said first meeting, shall organ- 

 ize by the election of such officers and tlie appoiutment of such com- 

 mittees as they may deem ex})edient, and for this purpose the commis- 

 sioners present at said meeting shall constitute a quorum. 



Sec. 5. That said commission be empowered in its discretion to 

 accept for the purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition such site 

 as may be selected and oftered and such plans and specifications of 

 buildings to be erected for such purpose at the expense of and tendered 

 by the corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, 

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

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

 posed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commission ade- 

 quate to the purposes of said exposition : And provided, That said coqi- 

 mission shall be satisfied that the said corporation has an actual bona 

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

 payment of at least five millions of dollars, of which not less than five 

 hundred 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 corporation in ample time for its needful use during 

 the prosecution of the work for the complete preparation for said 

 exposition. 



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

 l)repare a classification of exhibits, determine the plan and scope of 

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

 position, award all i)remiums, 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 

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

 or more members of all committees authorized to award prizes tor 

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



Sec. 7. That after the plans for said exposition shall be prepared by 

 said .cor[)oration and approved by said commission, the rules and regu- 

 lations of said corporation governing rates for entrance and admission 

 fees, or otherwise affecting the riglits, privileges, or interests of the 

 exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said corpo 

 ration, subject, however, to such modification, if any, as may be im- 

 peded by a majority 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 

 and ninety-three, and to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send 

 ships of war to join the United States Navy in rendezvous at Hamp- 

 ton Roads and proceed thence to said review. 



Sec. 9. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of the 

 buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition in said city of Chicago 

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

 appropriate ceremonies, and said exposition shall be open to visitors 

 not later than the first day of May, eighteen hnndred and ninety-three, 



