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CHAPTER 331. 

 An Act to provide for the celebration in the city of New York of the 

 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. 

 Approved by the Governor April 18, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follovis : 



Section 1. Within ten days after this act becomes a law the mayor of 

 the city of New York shall select and appoint a committee of one hundred 

 citizens of that city, which committee shall be a committee to conduct, 

 manage and direct the celebration in the city of New York of the 400th 

 anniversary of the discovery of America. 



§ 2. The mayor of the city of New York, the president of the common 

 council of the city of New York, and three members of said common 

 council, to be selected by the common council of the city of New York, 

 shall be ex-officio members of said committee. 



§ 3. The members of said committee are hereby created a committee 

 with power and authority in the name of and in behalf of the mayor, 

 aldermen and commonalty of said city, to make proper provisions for the 

 celebration in said city of the discovery of America. 



§ 4. The members of said committee shall meet in the city of New 

 York, at a time and place specified by public notice by the mayor of said 

 city within ten days after their appointment by the mayor. The mem- 

 bers of said committee shall organize for the election of such oifioers and 

 committees and the adoption of such rules and regulations as they shall 

 deem expedient. 



§ 5. Such committee shall have power to provide for an executive com- 

 mittee, which, subject to the rules and regulations of said committee 

 hereby created, shall have power to act in its stead, when it is not in 

 session. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 

 action of business, but no contract involving the expenditure of money 

 shall be made ; no executive ofiicer, officers or executive committee shall 

 be appointed and no rules governing the executive officer or officers and 

 the executive committee shall be adopted except by the affirmative vote 

 of two-thirds of all the members of said committee. Nothing herein 

 contained, however, shall be deemed to prohibit the said committee by 

 the two-thirds vote of all the members thereof from delegating to the 

 executive committee the power to make contracts involving the expendi- 

 ture of money and to make rules and regulations for its own government 

 and the government of the executive committee, officer or officers not in 

 conflict with those of the board. 



