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Si'X". 5. That Sivid commission be empowered iu its discretion to accept for tiie 

 purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition such site as may be selected iiud 

 offeied and such plans and specifications of buildings to be erected for such jiurpose 

 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 hundred and 

 niuctj'-two : " Prox^lded, That said site so tendered and the buildings proi>osed to 

 be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commission adequate to the purposes of 

 said exposition: A)hI provided, That said commission shall be satisried that the said 

 corporation has an actual bona fide and valid subscription to its cajiital stock which 

 will secure the ]>aymeut 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 cor. 

 poration in am^ile time for its needful use during the prosecution of the work for 

 the complete preparation for said exposition. 



Sec. 6. That the said commission shall allot space for exhibitors, prepare a clas- 

 sification of exhibits, determine the i)lan and scope of the exposition, and shall 

 appoint all judges and examiners for the exposition, award all premiums, if any, 

 and generally have charge of all intercourse with the exhibitors and the represent- 

 atives 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 pre- 

 scribed by said commission. Said board may appoint one or more members 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 jilans for said exposition shall be prepared by said corpora- 

 tion and approved by said commissicm, the rules and regulations of said corpora- 

 tion governing rates for entrance and admission fees, or otherwise aftectiug the 

 rights, jirivileges, or interests of the exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or 

 established by said corporation, subject, however, to such modification, if any, as 

 may be imposed 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 Hampton Roads and proceed thence to said review. 



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

 the AVorld'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 hun- 

 dred and ninety-three, and shall be closed at such time as the commission may 

 determine, but not later than the thirtieth day of October thereafter. 



Sec. 10. That whenever the President of the United States shall be notified by 

 the commission that provision has been made for grounds and buildings for the uses 

 herein provided for and there has also been filed with him by the said corporation, 

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

 tory proof that a sum not less than ten million dollars, to be used and expended for 

 the purposes of the exposition herein authorized, has in fact been raised or provided 

 tor by subscription or other legally binding means, he shall be authorized, through 

 the Department of State, to make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time 

 at which the exposition will open and close, and the place at which it will be lield ; 

 and he shall communicate to the diplomatic representatives of foreign nations 

 copies of the same, together with such regulations as may be adopted by the com- 

 mission, for publication in their res])ective countries, and he shall, in behalf of the 

 Government and people, invite foreign nations to take part in the said exposition 

 and appoint representatives thereto. 



Sec. 11. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the 

 sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tarift' or 



