An Act to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tennessee, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and making an appropriation therefor

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Summary

The sum of $30,000 is appropriated for buildings for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and $100,000 is appropriated for the purpose of paying the expenses incidental to the exhibit. A board to control the exhibit shall be composed of one member to be detailed by the head of each Executive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and one by the head of the United States Fish Commission.

Subject

  • Tennessee Centennial Exposition
  • United States Fish Commission
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 29 Stat. 477
  • Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies and Organizations
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

29 Stat. 477 (1896); ch. 1 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1897
  • 12/22/1896

Topic

  • Anniversaries
  • Museum finance
  • Finance
  • Exhibitions
  • Expenditures, Public

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 477-79

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