320 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



JOINT RESOLUTIOX authorizing tlie Secrerary of the Smithsonian Institution to send articles 

 illustrative of the life and development of the industries of women to the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Itejiresentatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Smithsouian Institution be, and he 

 hereby is, authorized to prepare and send, for exhibition in the Woman's Building 

 of the World's Columbian Exposition, any article now in his custody, or on exhibi- 

 tion in the National Museum, illustrative of the life and development of the indus- 

 tries of \vomeu. 



(Public resolution — No. 17.) Approved. March 3, 1893. 



WOltM) S COLrMllIAX KXl'OSITIOX. 



Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, 

 iustallatiou, care and custody, and return of such articles and materials as the heads 

 . of the several Executive Departmeuts, the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in 

 the Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may designate 

 for said Exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assist- 

 ants to the Board of Control and Management of the Government exiiibit, appointed 

 by the President, of which not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended by 

 said Board for clerical services one hundred and fifty thousand seven hundred and 

 fifty dollars ; of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available, 

 Provided, That the sum of eight thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be 

 necessarj^, may be expended under the supervision of the board of Control of the 

 United States Government exhibit in the collection, preparation, packing, transpor- 

 tation, installation, and care while exhibited of articles loaned or donated by the 

 colleges of agricultTire and mechanic arts in the several States for the display in the 

 agricultural b.iilding of the Exposition, of the means and methods of giving instruc- 

 tion in the so-called land-grant college of the United States, and for re-packing and 

 returning this property at the close of the Exixtsition, the same to be taken from the 

 sum apportioned to the Agricultural Department; and ten thousand dollars addi- 

 tional for special expenses attending the naval exhibit of the model of a l)attle ship. 



World's Columbian Commlssion: For the World's Columbian Commission, two 

 hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, of which sum 

 ninety-three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars shall be used for the Board of 

 Lady Managers; and twenty-five thousand dollars of the last sum is hereby made 

 immediately available; and ten thousand dollars of the appropriation for the Board 

 of Lady Managers shall be paid in souvenir coins of the denomination of twenty- 

 five cents, and for that purpose there shall be coined at the mints of the United 

 States silver quarter dollars of the legal weight and fineness, not to exceed forty 

 thousand pieces, the devices and designs upon which shall be prescribed by the 

 Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and said 

 silver coins shall be manufactured from uucurrent subsidiary silver coins now in the 

 Treasury; and all provisions of law relative to the coinage, legal-tender quality, 

 and redemption of the present subsidiary silver coins shall be apjjlicable to the coins 

 herein authorized to l)c issued; and a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars may 

 be used by the Director-General in his discretion for incidental and contingent 

 expenses of his office. 



To enable said Commission and the Board of Lady Managers to give effect to and 

 execute the provisions of section six of the act of Congress a^iproved April twenty- 

 fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the World's Columbian Exposition, 

 and appropriating money therefor, relating to committees, judges, and examiners 

 for the Exjiosition, and the granting of awards, i\\e hundred and seventy thousand 



