APPENDIX X. 



Documents in Kelation to the Colvmbian Historical Exhi- 

 EiTtON IN Madrid, 1801!. 



No. 1. 



ACT OF CONGRESS PROVIDING FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF THE 

 UNITED STATES AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FOURTH CENTURY 

 OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. 



[PriiLic— No. 62.] 



Jie it enacted iij the Senate imd House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary, he, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- 

 ury not otherwise aiipropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service 

 of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely : 



Columbian Historical Exposition AT Madrid: For the expense of representa- 

 tion of the United States at the Columbian Historical Exposition to bo held in 

 ]\Iadrid m eighteen hundred and ninety-two in commemoration of the four hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the discovery of America, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion 

 of the Secretary of State ; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint a commis- 

 sioner-general and two assistant commissioners, who may, in his discretion, be selected 

 from the active or retired list of the Army or Navy, and shall serve without other com- 

 pensation than that to which they are now entitled by law, to represent the United 

 States at said exposition ; that it shall be the duty of such commissioners to select from 

 the archives of the United States, from the National Museum, and from the various 

 Executive Departments of the Government such pictures, books, papers, documents, 

 and other articles as may rehite to the discovery and early settlement of America 

 and the aboriginal inhabitants thereof; and they shall be authorized to secure the 

 loan of similar articles from other museums and private collections, and arrange, 

 classify, and install them as the exhibit of the United States at the said exi)Ositiou; 

 that the President is authorized to cause the detail of otficers from the active or 

 retired list of the Army and Navy, to serve without compensation other than that 

 to which they are now entitled by law, as assistants to said commissioners; and the 

 said commissioners shall be authorized to employ such clerical and other assistance 

 as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State. 



Approved May 13, 1892. 



Ill the Siiiidiy Civil appropriation bill, approved August 5, 1892, an 

 appropriation was made in tlie following words: 



COLU.MBiAN Historical Exposition at Madrid: For expenses of representation 

 of the United States at said exposition, ten thousand dollars. 

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