An Act To provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of art, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri

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Summary

Provisions are set forth for the creation of a nonpartisan commission, "Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission." There shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Government of the United States from its Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, and the Department of Labor such articles and material as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people.

Subject

  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
  • United States Dept. of Labor
  • United States Fish Commission
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 31 Stat. 1440
  • Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies and Organizations
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

31 Stat. 1440 (1901); ch. 864 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

  • 1901
  • 03/03/1901

Topic

  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Exhibitions

Place

Saint Louis (Mo.)

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 6; Page Numbers: 1440-45

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