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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1819. 1507 
the year 1892, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, as 
hereinafter provided. 
Src. 2. That a commission, to consist of two commissioners from 
each State and Territory of the United States and from the District 
of Columbia and eight commissioners at large, is hereby constituted, 
to be designated as the World’s Columbian Commission. 
Src. 3. That said commissioners, two from each State and Territory, 
shall be appointed within thirty days from the passage of this act, by 
the President of the United States, on the nomination of the govern- 
ors of the States and Territories, respectively, and by the President 
eight commissioners at large and two from the District of Columbia; 
and in the same manner and within the same time there shall be 
appointed two alternate commissioners from each State and Territory 
of the United States and the District of Columbia and eight alternate 
commissioners at large, who shall assume and perform the duties of 
such commissioner or commissioners as may be unable to attend the 
meetings of the said commission; and in such nominations and appoint- 
ments each of the two leading political parties shall be equally repre- 
sented. Vacancies in the commission nominated by the governors of 
the several States and Territories, respectively, and also vacancies in 
the commission at large and from the District of Columbia, may be 
filled in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided 
herein for their original appointment. 
Src. 4. That the Secretary of State of the United States shall, 
immediately after the passage of this act, notify the governors of the 
several States and Territories, respectively, thereof and request such 
nominations to be made. The commissioners so appointed shall be 
called together by the Secretary of State of the United States in the 
city of Chicago, by notice to the commissioners, as soon as convenient 
after the appointment of said commissioners, and within thirty days 
thereafter. The said commissioners, at said first meeting, shall 
organize by the election of such officers and the appointment of such 
committees as they may deem expedient, and for this purpose the com- 
missioners present at said meeting shall constitute a quorum. 
Src. 5. That said commission be empowered in its discretion to 
accept for the purposes of the World’s Columbian Exposition such 
site as may be selected and offered and such plans and specifications of 
buildings to be erected for such purpose at the expense of and ten- 
‘dered by the corporation organized under the laws of the State of 
Illinois, known as ‘*‘ The World’s Exposition of Eighteen Hundred 
and Ninety-two:” Provided, That said site so tendered and the build- 
ings proposed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commis- 
sion adequate to the purposes of said exposition: And provided, That 
said commission shall be satisfied that the said corporation has an 
actual bona fide and valid subscription to its capital stock, which will 
