702 CONGEESSIONAL PKOCEEDINGS. 



bonds of peace and friendship which already happily subsist l)etween the Govern- 

 ment and people of and those of the United States. 



I have the hoxior to be, sir, with the highestconsideration, your obedient servant, 



January 23, 1874. 



Executive order by the President of the United tStaten creating the Government executive 



board. 



Whereas it has been brought to the notice of the President of the United States 

 that in the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil 

 and Mine, to be held in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1876, for the purpose of 

 celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United 

 States, it is desirable that from the Executive Departments of the Government of the 

 United States in which there may be articles suitable for the purpose intended there 

 should appear such articles and materials as will, when presented in a collective 

 exhibition, illustrate the functions and administrative faculties of the Government 

 in time of peace and its resources as a war power, and thereby serve to demonstrate 

 the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people. Now, 

 for the purpose of securing a complete and harmonious arrangement of the articles 

 and materials designed to be exhibited from the Executive Departments of the Gov- 

 ernment it is ordered that a board, to be composed of one person to be named by 

 the head of each of the Executive Departments which may have articles and mate- 

 rials to be exhibited, and also of one person to be named in behalf of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and one to be named in the behalf of the Department of 

 Agriculture, be charged with the preparation, arrangement, and safe-keeping of such 

 articles and materials as the heads of the several Departments and the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture and the Director of the Smithsonian Institution may respectively 

 decide shall be embraced in the collection; that one of the persons thus named, to 

 be designated by the President, shall be chairman of such board, and that the board 

 appoint from their own number such other officers as they may think necessary, and 

 that the said board when organized shall be authorized, under the direction of the 

 President, to confer with the executive officers of the Centennial Exhibition in rela- 

 tion to such matters connected with the subject as may pertain to the respective 

 Departments having articles and materials on exhibition, and that the names of the 

 persons thus selected by the heads of the several Departments, the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, and the Director of the Smithsonian Institution shall be submitted to 

 the President for designation. 



By order of the President: ' Hamilton Fish, 



Secretary of State. 



Washington, January 28, 1874- 



"By order of the President: 



(Signed) "Hamilton Fish, 



' ' Secretary of State. 

 "Washington, January 23d, 1874-' 



In accordance with the above order the President appointed a board 

 composed of a representative from each of the Executive Departments 

 of the Government except the Department of State and the Attorney- 

 General's Department, but inckiding the Department of Agriculture 

 and the Smithsonian Institution, The board was composed as follows: 



War Department: Col. C. S. Lyford (chairman), Ordnance Bureau. 



Treasury Department: Hon. R. W. Taylor, First Controller of the 

 Treasury. 



