FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1873-1875. 703 



Navy Department: Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, United States 

 Navy. 



Interior Department: John Eaton, Commissioner of Education. 



Post-Office Department: Dr. Charles F. McDonald, Chief of Money- 

 Order Department. 



Agricultural Department: Wm. Saunders, Superintendent of Prop- 

 agating Garden. 



Smithsonian Institution: Prof. S. F. Baird, Assistant Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and United States Fishery Commissioner, 



This board was charged with the duty of perfecting a collective 

 exhibition that should illustrate the functions and administrative facul- 

 ties of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war 

 power. 



June 5, 1874. 



An act, etc. 



Whereas at various international exhibitions which have been held 

 in foreign countries the United States have been represented in pur 

 suance of invitations given by the governments of those countries and 

 accepted by our own Government: Therefore, 



Be it enacted^ etc.^ That the President be requested to extend, in the 

 name of the United State's, a respectful and cordial invitation to the 

 governments of other nations to be I'epresented and take part in the 

 international exposition to be held at Philadelphia, under the auspices 

 of the Government of the United States, in the year 1876: Provided, 

 lioirevei\ That the United States shall not l)e liable, directly or indi- 

 rectly, for any expenses atttending such exposition or by reason of 

 the same. 



(Stat... XVIII, Parts, 53.) 

 June 16, 1874. 



Be it enacted, etc.. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, 

 and inscriptions, commemorative of the centennial anniversary of 

 the Declaration of Independence, be prepared at the mint at Philadel- 

 phia for the Centennial Board of Finance, subject to the provisions of 

 the fifty-second section of the coinage act of 1873, upon the payment 

 of a sum not less than the cost thereof, and all the provisions, whether 

 penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or 

 imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals 

 struck and issued under the provisions of this act. 



(Stat, XVIII, Parts, 76.) 



June 18, 1874. 



Be it enacted, etc.. That all articles which shall be imported for the 

 sole purpose of exhibition at the International Exhibition to be held 

 in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1876 shall be admitted 

 without the payment of duty or of customs fees or charges, under 

 such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: 

 Provided. That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States 



