ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXI 



the committee on final report, or the board of reference and control, 

 of which one thousand shall be for the use of the Senate, two thou- 

 sand for the use of the House of Representatives, and five hundred 

 for distribution by the Department of State. (Passed Senate May 31, 

 1900; passed House March 1, 1901; Statutes, XXXI, concurrent 

 resolutions, 11.) 



TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 



Resolved by the Senate and J louse of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That so much as may be nec- 

 essary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one hundred 

 thousand dollars provided in section three of the Act to aid and encour- 

 age the holding- of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville 

 in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, approved December twenty- 

 second, eighteen hundred and ninet} 7 -six, be applied to the preparation 

 of illustrations and the printing and binding at the Government Print- 

 ing Office of six thousand copies of the report of the board of man- 

 agement of the United States Government exhibit at said exposition, 

 under the direction of the chairman of said board. (Approved, 

 March 2, 1901; Statutes, XXXI, 1161.) 



LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT To provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase 

 of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhi- 

 bition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, 

 and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri. 



Whereas it is fit and appropriate that the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the purchase of the Louisiana territory be commemorated by an 

 exhibition of the resources of the territory, their development, and 

 of the progress of the civilization therein; and 



Whereas such an exhibition should be of a national and international 

 character, so that not only the people of that territory, but of our 

 Union, and of all nations as well, can participate, and should there- 

 fore have the sanction of the Congress of the United States: There- 

 fore, 



Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represent at hys of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That an exhibit of arts, 

 industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, forest, and 

 sea shall be inaugurated in the } r ear nineteen hundred and three, in 

 the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, as herein provided. 



Sec. 2. That a nonpartisan commission is hereby constituted, to 

 consist of nine commissioners, to be known and designated as the 

 " Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission," who shall be appointed, 

 within thirty days from the passage of this Act, by the President of 

 the United States, and who shall also be subject to removal by him. 



