MONEY IN THE UNITED STATES. Amount of all kinds of money in the Treasury and in circulation and total stock on June 30 in each year, from 1878 to September, 1890. [From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury.] Estimated amount of gold, silver and paper currency in circulation on June 30, in each year, from 1878 to September, 1890. [From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury.] Statement of the amount produced, taxes paid, etc., for the fiscal year 1890. *Including the state of Rhode Island. No oleomargarine was manufactured in the state of Connecticut. +Including the state of Delaware, the District of Columbia and the counties of Accomack and Northampton in Virginia. The production of this district was manufactured in the District of Columbia. The World's Columbian Exposition. ACT OF CONGRESS PROVIDING FOR THE FAIR. An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America 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. Whereas, It is fit and appropriate that the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America be commemorated by an exhibition of the resources of the United States of America, their development, and of the progress of civilization in the new world; and Whereas. Such an exhibition should be of a national and international character, so that not only the people of our union and this continent, but those of all nations as well, can participate, and should therefore 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 of America, in congress assembled. That an exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine and sea shall be inaugurated in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two in the city of Chicago, in the state of Illinois, as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. That a commission, to consist of two commissioners from each state and territory of the United States and from the District of Columbia and eight commissioners-at-large, is hereby constituted, to be designated as the World's Columbian Commission. Sec. 3. That said commissioners, two from each state and territory, shall be appointed within thirty days from the passage of this act by the president of the United States, on the nomination of the governors of the states and territories respectively, and by the president eight commissioners-at-large and two from the District of Columbia; and in the same manner and within the same time there shall be appointed two alternate commissioners from each state and territory of the United States and the District of Columbia and eight alternate commissioners-at-large, who shall assume and perform the duties of such commissioner or commissioners as may be unable to attend the meetings of the said commission; and in such nominations and appointments each of the two leading political partles shall be equally represented. Vacancies in the commission nominated by the governors of the several states and territories respectively, and also vacancies in the commission-at-large and from the District of Columbia, may be filled in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided herein for their original appointment. Sec. 4. That the secretary of state of the United States shall, immediately after the passage of this act, notify the governors of the several states and territories respectively thereof and request such nominations to be made. The commissioners so appointed shall be called together by the secretary of state of the United States in the city of Chicago, by notice to the commissioners, as soon as convenient after the appointment of said commissioners and within thirty days thereafter. The said commissioners, at said first meeting, shall organize by the election of such officers and the appointment of such committees as they may deem expedient, and for this purpose the commissioners present at said meeting shall constitute a quorum. Sec. 5. That said commission be empowered In its discretion to accept for the purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition such site as may be selected and offered and such plans and specifications of buildings to be erected for such purpose at the expense of and tendered by the corporation organized under the laws of the state of Illinois, known as "The World's Exposition of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Two;" Provided, That said site so tendered and the buildings proposed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said commission adequate to the purposes of said Exposition: And provided, That said commission shall be satisfied that the said corporation has an actual bona fide and valid subscription to its capital stock which will secure the payment of at least five millions of dollars, of which not less than five hundred thousand dollars shall have been paid in, and that the further sum of five million dollars, making in all ten million dollars, will be provided by said corporation in ample time for its needful use during the prosecution of the work for the complete preparation for said Exposition. Sec. 6. That the said commission shall allot space for exhibitors, prepare a classification of exhibits, determine the plan and scope of the Exposition, and shall appoint all judges and examiners for the Exposition, award all premiums, if any, and generally have charge of all intercourse with the exhibitors and the representatives of foreign nations. And said commission is authorized and required to appoint a board of lady managers of such number and to perform such duties as may be prescribed by said commission. Said board may appoint one or more members of all committees authorized to award prizes for exhibits which may be produced in whole or in part by female labor. Sec. 7. That after the plans for said Exposition shall be prepared by said corporation and approved by said commission, the rules and regulations of said corporation governing rates for entrance and admission fees, or otherwise affecting the rights, privileges or interests of the exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said corporation, subject, however, to such modification, if any, as may be imposed by a majority of said commissioners. Sec. 8. That the president is hereby empowered and directed to hold a naval review in New York harbor, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send ships-ofwar to join the United States navy in rendezvous at Hampton Roads and proceed thence to said review. Sec. 9. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of the buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition in said city of Chicago on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, with appropriate ceremonies; and said Exposition shall be open to visitors not later than the first day of May.eighteen hundred and ninety-three,and shall be closed at such time as the commission may determine, but not later than the thirtieth day of October thereafter. Sec. 10 That whenever the president of the United States shall be notified by the commission that provision has been made for grounds and buildings for the uses herein provided for, and there has also been filled with him by the said corporation, known as "The World's Exposition of Eighteen Hundred and NinetyTwo," satisfactory proof that a sum not less than ten million dollars, to be used and ex to. pended for the purposes of the Exposition resources as a war power. tending to demonherein authorized, has in fact been raised or strate the nature of our institutions and their provided for by subscription or other legally adaptation to the wants of the people; and to binding means, he shall be authorized, through secure a complete and harmonious arrangethe department of state, to make proclama- ment of such a government exhibit a board tion of the same, setting forth the time at shall be created to be charged with the selecwhich the Exposition will open and close and tion, preparation, arrangement, safe-keeping the place at which it will be held; and he and exhibition of such articles and materials shall communicate to the diplomatic repre- as the heads of the several departments and sentatives of foreign nations copies of the the directors of the Smithsonian institution same, together with such regulations as may and National museum may respectively debe adopted by the commission, for publica-cide shall be embraced in said government extion in their respective countries, and he shall, hibit. The president may also designate adin behalf of the government and people, in- ditional articles for exhibition. Such board vite foreign nations to take part in the said shall be composed of one person to be named Exposition and appoint representatives there- by the head of each executive department and one by the directors of the Smithsonian Sec. 11. That all articles which shall be im- institution and National museum and one by ported from foreign countries for the sole the fish commission, such selections to be appurpose of exhibition at said Exposition,upon proved by the president of the United States. which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, The president shall name the chairman of shall be admitted free of payment of duty, said board, and the board itself shall select customs fees, or charges, under such regula- such other officers as it may deem necessary. tions as the secretary of the treasury shall That the secretary of the treasury is hereby prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time authorized and directed to place on exhibiduring the exhibition to sell for delivery at tion, upon such grounds as shall be alloted the close of the Exposition any goods or prop- for the purpose, one of the life-saving stations erty imported for and actually on exhibition authorized to be constructed on the coast of in the Exposition buildings or on its grounds, the United States by existing law, and to cause subject to such regulations for the security of the same to be fully equipped with all appathe revenue and for the collection of the im-ratus, furniture and appliances now in use in port duties as the secretary of the treasury all life-saving stations in the United States, shall prescribe. Provided, That all such arti- said building and apparatus to be removed at cles when sold or withdrawn for consumption the close of the exhibition and re-erected at in the United States shall be subject to the the place now authorized by law. duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal. Sec. 12. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the remainder of the present fiscal year and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the treasury for purposes connected with the admission of foreign goods to said exhibition. Sec. 13. That it shall be the duty of the commission to make report from time to time to the president of the United States of the progress of the work, and, in a final report, present a full exhibit of the results of the Exposition. Sec. 14. That the commission hereby authorized shall exist no longer than until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight. Sec. 17. That the secretary of the treasury shall cause a suitable building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the World's Columbian Exposition for the government exhibits, as provided in this act, and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United States; but the contracts for said building or buildings shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and for the remainder of the fiscal year and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, there is hereby appropriated for said building or buildings, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The secretary of the treasury shall cause the said building or buildings to be constructed, as far as possible, of iron, steel and glass, or of such other material as may be taken out and sold to the best advantage; and he is authorized and required to dispose of such building or buildings, or the material composing the same, at the close of the Exposition, giving preference to the city of Chicago or to the said "World's Exposition of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Two," to purchase the same at an appraised value, to be ascertained in such manner as he may determine. Sec. 15. That the United States shall not in any manner nor under any circumstances be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings or representations of the said corporation organized under the laws of the state of Illi- Sec. 18. That for the purpose of paying the nois, its officers, agents, servants or employes, expenses of transportation, care and custody or any of them, or for the service, salaries, of exhibits by the government, and the mainlabor, or wages of said officers, agents, serv- tenance of the building or buildings hereinants or employes, or any of them, or for any before provided for, and the safe return of subscription to the capital stock, or for any articles belonging to the said government excertificates of stock, bonds, mortgages or ob-hibit, and for the expenses of the commission ligations of any kind issued by said corpora- created by this act, and other contingent extion, or for any debts, liabilities or expenses penses, to be approved by the secretary of the of any kind whatever attending such corpora- treasury upon itemized accounts and vouchtion or accruing by reason of the same. ers, there is hereby appropriated for the reSec. 16. That there shall be exhibited at mainder of this fiscal year and for the fiscal said Exposition, by the government of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred United States, from its executive depart- and ninety-one, out of any money in the ments, the Smithsonian institution, the United treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum States fish commission and the National of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much museum, such articles and materials as illus- thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That trate the functions and administrative faculty the United States shall not be liable on acof the government in time of peace and its count of the erection of buildings, expenses of |