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and eightymhrecl , in e a e oi New York, 111 the year eighteen hundred Be tt enacted Zn; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amertcd an Congress assembled, That in celebration of the one 0 n e linndreotii hundredth anniversary of the treaty of peace and the recognition of ¤¤¤iV<>YS¤TY °l`lh*> American Independence, an international exhibition of arts manufac- "“"Y"fP°¥‘°°“"‘l. tures, and products of the soil and mine, be held under the direction of 26 eign 1 tion; i)t the United States Internation Commission, a corporation to be created pglideihig M L _ by this act, in the city of New York, in the State of New York, in the U¤it<*d' Stat M year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to be continued so long as shall I “I ° f “.*" U "“”‘ be in its judgment advantageous, subject to the provisions hereinafter Ctjggiliiifm . contained and subject always to the supervision and under the auspices New Yorikliii ieeizt of the Government of the United States. · SEO. 2. That a commission, to consist of two commissioners from each T w o e o minis. State and one from each Territory of the United States, and one from Sioncrs from teen the District of Columbia, together with the members of the committee Smm i"" *1 ,,°“." of finance, as provided in section ten, and the following named persons, .,;=Q°1f,,cl§1` to wit, Hugh J. Jewett, Edwin D. Morgan, William Hoyt, Henry G. unit Ar Connnbi; Stebbins, Marshall O. Roberts, Hugh McCulloch, James F. Wenman, Incorporators. Vllilliam A. Cole, Thomas Barbour, William H. Guion, George J. For- · rest, John T. Agnew, Thurlow Weed, Samuel A. Haines, Thomas Mc- Elrath, Frederick A. P. Barnard, John P. Newman, J. Pierpont Morgan, John P. Townsend, Alfred M. Hoyt, Lewis A. Sayre, Charles Lanier, William H. C. Price, William R. Garrison, Frederick L. Taleott, Winiield S. Hancock, Algernon S. Sullivan, Samuel Sloan, Cyrus W. Field, Rosewell G. Rolston, Edward Auchincloss, George W. Debevoise, James How, Benjamin A. Willis, Albert Tilt, Jordan L. Mott, Charles K. Graham, George R. Blanchard, Charles H. Baldwin, Mortimer C. Addoms, Samuel L. M. Barlow, Charles Schlesinger, Edward N. Dickerson, Thomas Rutter, J. Trumbull Smith, Frederick A. Potts, James Taleott, Edwards Pierrepont, Uriah Welch, Asahel N. Brockway, Rufus Hatch, William L. Strong, Henry F. Vail, Charles Wager Hull, Lewis May, John M. Cornell, Cornelius H. Delamater, Franklin Edson, George T. Hope, Joseph J. O’DOIlOllIlG, Charles Place, John A. Hardenbergh, Douglass Taylor, Peter Bowe, Stephen Hoe, Edward Cooper, Oswald Ottendortier, Edward L. Carey, John Bigelow, Patrick O. Reilly, Calvert Vaux, Gustave H. Schwab, John Riley, Thomas J. Carleton, Frederick W. Whittemore, Charles L. Tiffany, John A. Stewart, Abram S. Hewitt Daniel F. Appleton, David Dows, Orestes Cleveland, Horace Porter, Henry M. Alexander, Fletcher Harper, Charles G. Francklyn, Thomas C. Acton, Richard M. Hoe, Jackson S. Schultz, Edward Clark, Norvin Green, William B. Dinsmore, Dennis C. lV1lcox, Benjamin B. Sherman, Samuel B. H. Vance, Samuel D. Babcock, Henry Hilton, Andrew H. Green, Robert Gordon, Allen Campbell, Samuel B. Parsons, Francis A. Stout, J. Peabody Wetmore, John R. Voorhies, Leighton Williams, George G. Haven, Stephen O’Brien, Charles Solomons, Henry Draper, Philip Collins, is hereby constituted, to be designated as the _ D esig n a tion, United States International Commission, whose functions shall continue gripe t 1 ous, and until the close of the exhibition, whose duty it shall be, among other *15- things, to fix the precise date of, and to prepare for and to superintend the holding of, the exhibition upon a site within the corporate limits of the said city of New York: _ _ _ _ , Sec. 3. That the said United States International Commission is I ln e) orrg>1·3i,¤pn, hereby created a body corporate, and by that name shall have a cor- ;;’“,£Sf·lam·wg porate existence, until the object for which it is formed_ shall have been ,,h0,,,,y_ accomplished, and as such it shall be competent for 1t_to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity in the United States, and may make and have a corporate seal, and may purchase, take, have, and hold, and may grant, sell,