1508 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
secure the payment of at least $5,000,000, of which not less than 
500,000 shall have been paid in, and that the further sum of $5,000,000, 
making in all $10,000,000, will be provided by said corporation in 
ample time for its needful use during the prosecution of the work for 
the complete preparation for said exposition. ; 
Src. 6. That the said commission shall allot space for exhibitors, 
prepare a classification of exhibits, determine the plan and scope of 
the exposition, and shall appoint all judges and examiners for the 
exposition, award all premiums, if any, and generally have charge of 
all intercourse with the exhibitors and the representatives of foreign 
nations. And said commission is authorized and required to appoint 
a board of lady managers of such number and to perform such duties 
as may be prescribed by said commission. Said board may appoint 
one or more members of all committees authorized to award prizes 
for exhibits which may be produced in whole or in part by female 
labor. 
Sec. 7. That after the plans for said exposition shall be prepared by 
said corporation and approved by said commission, the rules and regu- 
lations of said corporation governing rates for entrance and admission 
fees, or otherwise affecting the rights, privileges, or interests of the 
exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said cor- 
poration, subject, however, to such modification, if any, as may be 
imposed by a majority of said commissioners. 
Src. 8. That the President is hereby empowered and directed to 
hold a naval review in New York Harbor, in April, 1893, and to extend 
to foreign nations an invitation to send ships of war to join the United 
States Navy in rendezvous at Hampton Roads and proceed thence to 
said review. 
Sec. 9. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of the 
buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition in said city of Chicago 
on the 12th day of October, 1892, with appropriate ceremonies, and 
said exposition shall be open to visitors not later than the 1st day of 
May, 1893, and shall be closed at such time as the commission may 
determine, but not later than the 30th day of October thereafter. 
Sec. 10. That whenever the President of the United States shall be 
notified by the commission that provision has been made for grounds 
and buildings for the uses herein provided for and there has also been 
filed with him by the said corporation, known as ‘*The World’s 
Exposition of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-two,” satisfactory proof 
that a sum not less than $10,000,000, to be used and expended for the 
purposes of the exposition herein authorized, has in fact been raised 
or provided for by subscription or other legally binding means, he 
shall be authorized, through the Department of State, to make procla- 
mation of the same, setting forth the time at which the exposition will 
open and close, and the place at which it will be held; and he shall com- 
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