ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONORESS. LXV 



and manuscripts written on stumps, and so forth, by generals in the 

 war of the rel)ellion, now in the possession of the Rebellion Records 

 Division of the War Department, and such other articles as ma}^ be 

 of interest to the printing- trades. 



Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, 

 authorized in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition such general 

 exhibit of patents as may be of interest to the printing trades. 



Sec. 4. That the secrotar}- of the Smithsonian Institution be, and he 

 is herelw, authorized in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition the 

 old Ben Franklin printing press and such other articles now in the 

 National jMuseum as ma}" be of interest to the printing trades. 



Sec. 5. That all expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of 

 this joint resolution shall be paid b}" the directors of the New York 

 Printing Exposition, under such regulations as shall be adopted b}^ the 

 Secretar}'^ of the Treasury, the Secretar^^ of War, the Secretary of 

 the Interior, and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. (Ap- 

 proved, April 23, 11>00; Statutes. XXXI. p. 714.) 



IX3UISTANA I'URCIIASE EXPOSITION. 



For defraying the expenses of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 Commission, when appointed, ten thousand dollars; and when the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition of nineteen hundred and three, a cor- 

 poration under the laws of the State of Missouri, shall have raised, to 

 the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten million dollars 

 for and oh account of inaugurating and carrying forward an exposi- 

 tion at Saint Louis, Missouri, to celebrate the one hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the purchase of Louisiana Territory by the United States, 

 then the United States will authorize the expenditure of the sum of 

 live million dollars for such exposition, to be disbursed under the 

 direction of ""The Louisiana Purchase Exposition of nineteen hundred 

 and three,'' under rules and regulations and under conditions to be 

 hereafter pi-escribed b}" the Congress: Vrovided^ licnceve'i\ That said 

 sum of five million dollars shall not be expended until the said sum of 

 ten million dollars raised by said Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 

 nineteen hundred and three shall have been expended for and on 

 account of said exposition, and there shall be repaid into the Treasury 

 of the LTnited States the same proportionate amount of the aid given 

 by the United States as shall be repaid to either the corporation or 

 the cit}^ of Saint Louis: And 2)rovided further^ That all sums expended 

 l)y the Government on account of said exposition, except for its own 

 biuldings and exhibits and the care of the same, shall be deducted from 

 any general appropriation made for said exposition. (Sundry civil act 

 for 1901, approved June 6, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, p. 644.) 



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