1588 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Public printing and binding: Sec. 2. And it is hereby declared that 
all appropriations herein made for, or pertaining to, the World’s 
Columbian Exposition are made upon the condition that the said Ex- 
position shall not be opened to the public on the first day of the 
week, commonly called Sunday; and if the said appropriations be 
accepted by the corporation of the State of Illinois, known as the 
World’s Columbian Exposition, upon that condition, it shall be, and 
it is hereby, made the duty of the World’s Columbian Commission, 
created by act of Congress of April 25th, 1890, to make such rules 
or modification of the rules of said corporation as shall require the 
closing of the Exposition on the said first day of the week, commonly 
called Sunday. 
(Stat., XX VII, 388.) 
August 5, 1892. 
Be it enacted, etc., That for the purpose of aiding in defraying the 
cost of completing in a suitable manner the work of preparation for 
inaugurating the World’s Columbian Exposition, authorized by the act 
of Congress approved April 25th, anno Domini 1890, to be held at the 
city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, there shall be coined at the 
mints of the United States silver half-dollars of the legal weight and 
fineness, not to exceed five million pieces, to be known as the Colum- 
bian half-dollar, struck in commemoration of the World’s Columbian 
Exposition, the devices and designs upon which shall be prescribed by 
the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the 
Treasury; and said silver coins shall be manufactured from uncurrent 
subsidiary silver coins now in the Treasury, and all provisions of law 
relative to the coinage, legal-tender quality, and redemption of the 
present subsidiary silver coins shall be applicable to the coins issued 
under this act, and when so recoined there is hereby appropriated from 
the Treasury the said five millions of souvenir half-dollars, and the 
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay the same to the World’s 
Columbian Exposition, upon estimates and vouchers certified by the 
president of the World’s Columbian Exposition, or in his absence or 
inability to act, by the vice-president, and by the director-general of 
the World’s Columbian Commission, or in his absence or inability to 
act, by the president thereof, and the Secretary of the Treasury, for 
labor done, materials furnished, and services performed in prosecuting 
said work of preparing said Exposition for opening as provided by 
said act approved April 25th, 1890; and all such estimates and vouch- 
ers shall be made in duplicate, one to be filed with the Secretary of 
the Treasury, the other to be retained by the World’s Columbian 
Exposition: Provided, however, That before the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall pay to the World’s Columbian Exposition any part of 
the said five million silver coins, satisfactory evidence shall be furnished 
him showing that the sum of at least $10,000,000 has been collected and 
disbursed as required by said act: And provided, That the said World’s 
