FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 1589 
Columbian Exposition shall furnish a satisfactory guaranty to the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury that any further sum actually necessary to com- 
plete the work of said Exposition to the opening thereof has been or 
will be provided by said World’s Columbian Exposition; but nothing 
herein shall be so construed as to delay or postpone the preparation of 
the souvenir coins hereinbefore provided for. And there is hereby 
appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
to reimburse the Treasury for loss on the recoinage herein authorized. 
Src. 2. That the appropriation provided in section one of this act 
shall be upon condition that the said World’s Columbian Exposition 
maintain and pay all the expenses, costs, and charges of the great 
departments organized for the purpose of conducting the work of the 
Exposition, said expenses, costs, and charges to be paid out of the 
funds of the said World’s Columbian Exposition. 
Sec. 3. That fifty thousand bronze medals and the necessary dies 
therefor, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commem- 
orative of said Exposition celebrating the four hundredth anniversary 
of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, shall be pre- 
pared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury at a cost 
not to exceed $60,000, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 
under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prepare 
plates and make therefrom fifty thousand vellum impressions for 
diplomas at a cost not to exceed $43,000. Said medals and diplomas 
shall be delivered to the World’s Columbian Commission, to be awarded 
to exhibitors in accordance with the provisions of said act of Congress 
approved April 25th, 1890, and there is hereby appropriated, from 
any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
103,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expendi- 
tures authorized by this section; and authority may be granted by 
the Secretary of the Treasury to the holder of a medal, properly 
awarded to him, to have duplicates thereof made at any of the mints 
of the United States from gold, or silver, or bronze, at the expense of 
the person desiring the same. 
Src. 4. That 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 Exposition 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 the 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. 
