This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

4
THE WORLD'S EXPOSITION
culture and manufacture, will be the chief exhibit, but whio: if designed, also, to include all arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine; and,
Whereas, Such an exhibition should be national and international in its character, in which the people of this country and other parts of the world, who are interested in this subject, should participate, it should have the sanction of the Congress of the United States; therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, That a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under the joint auspices of the United States Government, the National Cott 'n Planters’ Association of America, and the city where it may be located.
Sec. '2. That the Pn-sident of the United States may, upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee, of the National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, appoint six United States Commissioners, and upon the recommendation of the majority of sub-•cribers to the enterprise, in the city where it may be located, may appoint seven United States Commissioners, who, together, shall constitute a Board of Management of said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.
Sec. 3. That the President of the United States may, upon the recommendation of the Governors of the various States and Territories of the Union, appoint one commissioner, and one alternate commissioner for each State and Territory, whose functions shall be defined by the said Board of Management.
Sec. 4. That all the said commissioners shall be appointed within one year from the passage of this Act.
Sec. 5. That said Board of Management shall hold its meetings in such city as may be selected for the location of said Exposition, by the National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, as aforesaid, and that a majority of said Board of Management shall have full power to make all needful rules and regulations for its government.
Sec. 6. That said Board of Management shall report to the President of the United States a suitable date for opening and closing the Exposition; a schedule of appropriate ceremonies for opening or dedicating the same, and such other matters as, in their judgment, may be deemed important.
Sec. 7. That no compensation for services shall be paid to the commissioners or other officers, provided by this Act, from the treasury of the United States, and the United States shall not be liable for any of the expenses attending such exhibition, or by reason of the same.
Sec. 8. That whenever the President shall be informed by the said Board of Management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or the erection of the same, for purposes of said Exposition, the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation pf the same, setting forth the time at which the Exposition will open, and tile place at which it will be held, and such
AND NEW ORLEANS.
6
Board of Management shill communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations copies of the same, and a copy of this Act, together with such regulations as may be adopted bv said Board of Management, for publication in their respective countries.
Sec. 9. That the President be requested to send, in the name of the United States invitations to the Governments of other nations to be represented and take part in said World’s Industrial Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held in some city of the United States, to be hereafter selected as aforesaid.
Seu. 10. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the United States, for the said Board of Management, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the payment of a sum not le*s than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act, against the counterfeiting or imitating of coin of the United States, shall apply to the medals struck and issued under this Act.
Sec. 11. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at said World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall be admitted without payment of duty, or of custom fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States, or shall be withdrawn for consumption therein, at any time after such importations, shall be subject to duties, if any are imposed on like articles, by the revenue laws, at the time of importation; and Provided Further, That in case any article imported under the provisions oi this act shall be withdrawn for consumption or shall be sold without payment of duties as required by law, all penalties prescribed by the revenue law* shall be applied and enforced against 6uch articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Approved February 10, 1883.
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President of the United States of America.
Whereas, By the eighth section of an act entitled “ An Act to Encourage the Holding of a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in the year Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-four,” approved February 10,1883, it was enacted as follows:
“ That whenever the President shall be informed by the Board of Management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or the erection of the same, for the purpose of the said Exposition, the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open,