ACTS AND KESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LIX 



waters of Lake Erie, beside which waters said exposition is located; 

 and 



Whereas it is desirable for its historical and educational effect that 

 there be given an exhibition of the Indians of North iVmerica, and 

 especially the ti'ibes of the old Northwest Territory; and 



Whereas it is desirable that an exhibition shall be made of the great 

 staples of the original Northwest Territory and Ohio Valle}^ region, 

 which contributes so largeh" to domestic and international commerce; 

 and 



Whereas encouragement should be given to an exhibit of the arts, 

 industries, manufactures, and products illustrative of the progress and 

 development of that and other sections of the country; and 



Whereas such exhibition should be international as well as national 

 in its character, in which the people of this country, of Mexico, the 

 Central and South American Governments, and other States of the 

 world should jiarticipate, and should, therefore, have the sanction of 

 the Congress of the United States; and 



Whereas it is desirable and will be highly beneficial to bring together 

 at such an exposition the people of the United States and other States 

 of this continent; and 



Whereas the Ohio Centennial Company, a corporation, has under- 

 taken to hold such exposition, beginning on the first da}' of ]Mav, nine- 

 teen hundred and two or nineteen hundred and three, and closing on 

 the first day of November, nineteen hundred and two or nineteen hun- 

 dred and three: Therefore, 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un ited 

 States of America in Congress assembled^ That there shall be exhibited 

 by the Government of the United States at said Ohio Centennial and 

 Northwest Territory Exposition from the Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, the Commission of 

 Fish and Fisheries, the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Republics such articles and materials as illustrate the function 

 and administrative faculty of the Government, its resources as a war 

 power, and its relations to other American Republics; and, to secure a 

 complete and harmonious arrangement of said Government exhibit, a 

 board of management shall be created, to be charged with the selec- 

 tion, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, 

 exhilMtion, and return of such articles and materials as the heads of 

 said departments and institutions of the Goverimient may respectively 

 decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President 

 may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board 

 shall be composed of one member to be detailed by the head of each 

 Executive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and National Museum, one l)y the head of the United States Fish 

 Commission, one b}- the Connnissioner of Labor, and one by the 



