limit of entertainment, and have means placed at your
disposal for correspondence, exploitation, and entertainment.
Your committees ought to be at work now and continue diligently
at work until the exposition gates open. After that you will
have ample work to do in connection with carrying out the
projects you will have previously originated.

The meeting set for April 29 was called by the president of the board
one day earlier, and the members met in the Administration Building,
exposition grounds, April 28, 1903.

The announcement of the death on February 27, 1903, of Mrs. Washington
A. Roebling, the member of the board from New Jersey, was read and
received with regret, and a committee was appointed to draft suitable
resolutions, to be spread upon the minutes of the board.

On that day the following rules and regulations were adopted by the
board, a copy being submitted to the National Commission and
subsequently approved by that body on April 29, 1903, and by the
Exposition Company January 12, 1904.

Rules and Regulations.

No. 1. _Meetings._--All the meetings of the board shall be held
in the city of St. Louis. The regular meetings shall be held at
such times as may be designated by a majority vote of the board.
Special meetings shall be subject to call of the president of
the board, the president of the National Commission, or written
request of five members of the board. The president shall
convene the board in accordance with the terms of the request.

No. 2. _Officers._--The officers of the board shall consist of a
president, eight vice-presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer.

No. 3. _Duties of officers._--The president shall preside at all
meetings of the board and shall sign all requisitions for funds
to be advanced to the treasurer, and examine and approve all
accounts to be paid by the treasurer.

No. 4. _Duties of vice-presidents._--In the absence of the
president the vice-presidents shall preside alternately from
session to session, in the order of their official designation.

No. 5. _Duties of secretary._--The secretary shall keep a
correct record of the proceedings of the board, and shall attend
to the giving or serving of all notices of meetings. She shall
conduct the official correspondence of the board of lady
managers, and shall perform such other duties as the board may
assi