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unexpended balances of the appropriations for the Cincinnati Exhibition of 1888 
may be applied for that purpose. 
By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, 
proceeded to consider the joint resolution. 
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 
amendment proposed by the Senator from Alabama [Mr. Morgan]. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
The joint resolution as amended was passed. 
Brussels Exposition. 
May 11, 1888. 
Joint resolution. 
Whereas the Belgian Government has extended to the Government 
of the United States an invitation to participate in the International 
Exhibition which is to be held at Brussels, Belgium, commencing in 
the month of May, 1888: 
Resolwed, etc., That said invitation is accepted and that there be, 
and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $30,000, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, to effect the purpose of this 
resolution, to be expended in the discretion-of the Secretary of State 
for the purpose of such representation at said exhibition. 
Src. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to trans- 
mit to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may 
have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together 
with any reports which may be made by the representatives of this 
country at said exhibition. 
(Stat., X XV, 622.) 
Cincimmati Exposition. 
May 28, 1888. 
An act, ete. 
Whereas the States which comprise the Northwest Territory and 
the adjacent States will hold at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July 4 to 
October 27, 1888, a centennial exposition commemorative of the 
organization of the Northwest Territory, under the ordinance of 1787, 
in which exposition all the States and Territories of the United States 
and the General Government have been invited to participate, the 
object being in said exposition to present a panorama of the nation’s 
resources and present state of progressive development by an exhibi- 
tion of the products of agriculture, of the various industries and fine 
arts; also the results of advancement made in the sciences; the whole 
illustrating the opportunities secured to and the possibilities which 
wait upon the citizens of this Republic; and 
Whereas the citizens of the Ohio Valley and the several States adja- 
cent thereto have made suitable and adequate preparation and arrange- 
