1512 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and that a sum not less than 
$10,000,000, to be used and expended for the purposes of said expo- 
sition, has been provided in accordance with the conditions and 
requirements of section 10 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide for 
celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer- 
ica by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exhibition 
of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, 
and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,” approved 
April 25, 1890: 
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United 
States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said act, do hereby 
declare and proclaim that such International Exhibition will be opened 
on the 1st day of May, in the year 1893, in the city of Chicago, in the 
State of Illinois; and will not be closed before the last Thursday in 
October of the same year. And, in the name of the Government and 
of the people of the United States, I do hereby invite all the nations of 
the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event that is pre- 
eminent in human history and of lasting interest to mankind, by 
appointing representatives thereto and sending such exhibits to the 
World’s Columbian Exposition as will most fitly and fully illustrate 
their resources, their industries, and their progress in civilization. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 
seal of the United States to be affixed. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 24th day of December, 1890, 
and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and 
fifteenth. 
[SEAL. | Bens. Harrison. 
By the President: 
JAMES G. BLAINE, 
Secretary of State. 
(Stat. XX VI, 1562.) 
January 16, 1891—House. 
A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury was submitted: 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 16, 1891. 
Str: I have the honor to report that the sum of $300,000 will be required during 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, for the purpose of collecting and preparing the 
Government exhibit for the World’s Columbian Exposition under section 16 of the 
act of April 25, 1890 (26 Stat., 64), and would respectfully recommend that the fol- 
lowing clause be enacted into law to carry the same into effect: 
‘““WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 
‘‘For the selection, purchase, preparation, and arrangement of such articles and 
materials as the heads of the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution and National Museum, and the U. 8. Fish Commission may decide shall be 
embraced in the Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President 
may designate for said exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as offi- 
