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board not exceeding $300 for services to be performed and incidental expenses to 

 be incurred in connection therewith: Provided, That the photographic views of the 

 Government exhibit accompanying the manuscript report shall not be printed or 

 reproduced for the publication herein authorized." 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, 



' Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Hon. J. W. KEIPER, 



Speaker House of Representatives. 

 March 3, 1883. 



Joint resolution. 



Resolved, etc., That there be printed and bound, in continuation of 

 the series of volumes heretofore published by Congress under joint 

 resolution of June 20, 1879, containing the final report of the United 

 States Centennial Commission on the International Exhibition of 1876, 

 and uniform therewith, 5,000 copies of the report of the board on 

 behalf of the United States Executive Departments at said exhibition, 

 being the report which was submitted to Congress by the President of 

 the United States by special message of February 9, 1877, and again 

 in his annual message of December 3, 1877, of which number 3,000 

 copies shall be for the House, 1,000 copies for the Senate, 200 copies 

 for the Smithsonian Institution for distribution to such foreign gov- 

 ernments and others as made contributions from such exhibition to 

 the National Museum, 300 copies for the late members of said board, 

 and 500 copies for distribution by the late president of the Centennial 

 Commission, the printing to be done by the Public Printer, under the 

 supervision of the late chairman of said board, upon whose order may 

 be allowed by the Public Printer to the late secretary of the board not 

 exceeding $300 for services to be performed and incidental expenses 

 to be incurred in connection therewith: Provided, That the photo- 

 graphic views of the Government exhibit accompanying the manu- 

 script report shall not be printed or reproduced for the publication 

 herein authorized. 



(Stat., XXII, p. 640.) 



New Orleans World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. 



February 10, 1883. 



An act, etc. 



Whereas it is desirable to encourage for celebration the 100th 

 anniversary of the production, manufacture, and commerce of cot- 

 ton by holding, in the year 1884, in some city of the Union, to be 

 selected by the executive committee of the National Cotton Plant 

 ers' Association of America, an institution for the public welfare 

 incorporated under the laws of Mississippi, a World's Industrial and 

 Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held under the joint auspices 

 of the United States, the -said National Cotton Planters' Association 

 of America, and of the city in which it may be located, and in which 



