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28 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 53, 55. 1884. Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, until such time as permanent provision shall be made for the same, and the sum of twenty- AI>PP<>P1‘i¤fi¤¤- five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for this purpose. R- $·, D- 343- S20. 14. That the provisions of chapter three, title twenty-three, of T¤f¤Xi¢¤¥i¤g}i<1- the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the un0rgan1zed “°;fi. ‘?X"I;“ f°* Territory of Alaska,. shall remain in full force, except as herein spec- Qgmslclgg gg; ially otherwise provided ; and the importation manufacture ami sale of hibicéd. ’ intoxicating liquors in said district except for medicinal meohamoal and scientific purposes is hereby prohibited under the penalties which are R. s,, p, 343, provided in section nineteen hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Stai- President to utes for the wrongful importation of distilled spirits. And the Presi- 111 B kv, ¤<><¤¤¤S¤r‘y dent of the United States shall make such regulations as are necessary ’°€“I"‘*‘°“"· “*°· to carry out the provisions of this section. Approved, May 17, 1884. May 2], 1884, CHAP. 55.-Au act tomako as loan to aid in the celebration of the Wor1d’s Industrial —————%. and Cotton Centennial Exposition. W0r1d’s Indus- Whereas, by the act of Congress entitled “An act to encourage the trial érgd Cotton holding of a Wor1d’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in g;l?;*:””‘“1 E’P°‘ the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four," approved February tenth, pmgmbh eighteen hundred and eighizythree, in the city of New Orleans, under the joint auspices of the United States, the National Cotton Plante1·’s Association of America, and the said city of New Orleans, a Wor1d’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition is to be held, universal in character, compreléending all arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine · an ` Whereas by? said act Congress declares that such exposition should be national and international in its character; and 4 Whereas under said act a board of management has been duly constituted and incorporated under the laws of the State of Louisiana, the members of which have been appointed by the President of the United States, upon recommendations made in the manner set forth in said act, and therefore are a duly qualiiied and commissioned United States board of management, clothed with full and adequate powers to perform any and all acts essential to the proper and necessary management of the afihirs of the said WorId’s Industrial and Cotton Gentennial Exposition in the manner and form prescribed by said act, and duly authorized by the sanction of the Government of the United States to raise the capital necessary to carry into effect; the provisions of sa-ud act of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three ; and Whereas the President of the United States, in compliance with the terms and requirements of said act, has extended, in the name of the United States, a respectful and cordial invitation to the Governments of other notions tg be represented and take part in the said international BXp0S1 ron; an Whereas the preparations designed by the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, and in part executed by the board of management, are in accordance with the spirit of the act of Congress relating thereto, and are on a scale creditable to the Government and the people 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 the sum of one million Appmpriatiou. dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the public Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a loan to the WorId’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be used and employed by the board of management thereof to augment and enhance the success of the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in snob manner as said board of management may determine and in Prvviv- accordance with the provisions of this act s Provided, That the said sum