694 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. COLE. I think it is hardly worth while to expend such a large 

 sum for such things, and $15,000, it seems to me, is ample for what- 

 ever care is requisite for the specimens that were received by the 

 Smithsonian Institution from the Land Office. 



Mr. STEVENSON. I had hoped that the chairman of the committee 

 would be satisfied with the recommendation and estimate of Professor 

 Baird. He gives a very good reason why he wants an increase of the 

 appropriation, and when a man like Professor Baird tells us why he 

 wants this, in order to enable the Institution to exhibit the geological 

 collection which they have received, and to make out duplicate speci- 

 mens of them, I do not see how we can well refuse such a request. 



Agreed to. 



March 3, 1873. 



Sundry civil act for 1874. 



Smithsonian Institution : For preservation of the collections of the 

 surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, $15,000. 

 For fitting up the new halls required for the Government collections, 



$15,000. 



For steam-heating apparatus for the same, $12,000. 

 (Stat, XVII, 518.) 



EXPOSITIONS. 



Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. 

 June 1, 1872. 



Whereas Congress did provide by an act entitled bi A.n act to provide 

 for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of American independ- 

 ence by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and 

 products of the soil and mine in the city of Philadelphia, and State of 

 Pennsylvania, in the year 1876," approved March third, 1871, for the 

 appointment of commissioners to promote and control the exhibition 

 of the national resources and their development, and the nation's 

 progress in arts which benefit mankind, and to suggest and direct 

 appropriate ceremonies by which the people of the United States may 

 commemorate that memorable and decisive event, the Declaration of 

 American Independence by the Congress of the United Colonies 

 assembled in the city of Philadelphia, on the fourth day of July, anno 

 Domini 1776; and whereas such provisions should be made for pro- 

 curing the funds requisite for the purposes aforesaid as will enable 

 all the people of the United States, who have shared the common 

 blessings resulting from national independence, to aid in the prepara- 

 tion and conduct of said international exhibition and memorial cele- 

 bration under the direction of the commissioners of the United States: 

 Therefore, 



Be it enacted, etc., That there is hereb} T created a body corporate, 

 to be known by the name of the Centennial Board of Finance, and by 

 that name to have an incorporate existence until the object for which 



