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sioner is present the alternate may participate in the debates and 

 serve on committees, but shall have no vote. The appointment of all 

 commissioners and alternate commissioners made since March third, 

 1872, are hereby ratified and confirmed; and all vacancies now existing, 

 or which may hereafter exist, whether by death, resignation, removal 

 from the State or Territory, or otherwise, shall be filled at any time 

 hereafter in like manner as is provided in said act of March third, 1871, 

 for the appointment of commissioners. 



SEC. 13. That it shall be the duty of the United States Centennial 

 Commission to make report from time to time to the President of the 

 United States of the progress of the work, and in a final report pre- 

 sent a full exhibit of the result of the United States Centennial Cele- 

 bration and Exhibition of 1876. 



(Stat, XVII, 203.) 



Vienna Exposition. 



February 14, 1873. 



Resolved, etc., That in order to enable the people of the United 

 States to participate in the advantages of the international exhibition 

 of the products of agriculture, manufactures, and the fine arts, to be 

 held at Vienna in the year 1873, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, 

 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum 

 of $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose 

 herein specified, which sum shall be expended under the direction of 

 the Secretary of State: Provided, That the President be authorized to 

 appoint a number of practical artisans not exceeding 8 and of scien- 

 tific men not exceeding 7, who shall attend said exhibition and report 

 their doings arid observations to him, and whose actual and reasonable 

 expenses, not to exceed $1,000 each, shall be paid from such fund, and 

 that the President be further authorized to appoint a number of hon- 

 orary commissioners, not to exceed 100, who shall receive no pay for 

 their expenses or otherwise: And provided further, That no person so 

 appointed shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any article 

 exhibited for competition: And provided, That not more than $50,000 

 shall be expended for salaries and expenses of all persons receiving 

 appointments to places authorized in this resolution, and not more 

 than $5,000 shall be paid for salary and expenses to any one person. 



SEC. 2. That the governors of the several States be, and they are 

 hereby, requested to invite the patriotic people of their respective 

 States to assist in the proper representation of the handiwork of our 

 artisans and the prolific sources of material wealth with which our 

 land is blessed, and to take such further measures as may be necessary 

 to diffuse a knowledge of the proposed exhibition and to secure to 

 their respective States the advantages which it promises. 



