re passed another bill
appropriating the sum of $30,000.

Besides the State appropriation of $65,000, the school committee of the
city of Providence subscribed $2,000 for an educational exhibit, making
the total amount available $67,000. There was absolutely no private
subscription or contribution.

The cost of installation, including cost of transportation, was as
follows:

Rhode Island State Building ......................... $26,000
Furnishing and equipment, contributed (valued at).... 6,000
Exhibit of inland fisheries ......................... 2,500
Exhibit Department of Education ..................... 3,000
Exhibit Department of Social Economy ................ 3,000
Exhibit Department of Forestry, Fish, and Game ...... 1,000
Exhibit Department of Agriculture and Horticulture .. 2,500

The State of Rhode Island was represented by exhibits in five of the
exhibition palaces as follows:

United States Fisheries Building: By the commission of inland fisheries.
Palace of Education: State board of education, Rhode Island State Normal
School, Providence High School, and demonstration by exhibit of various
schools of all grades in public school system of the city of Providence,
Rhode Island School of Design, public schools of the town of Warwick,
public schools of the town of Cranston, public schools of the town of
Bristol, Miss Mary C. Wheeler's Private School for Young Ladies,
Providence, R.I. Social Economy: Board of State charities and
corrections, Sockanosset School for Boys, Oaklawn School for Girls,
department of factory inspection, bureau of industrial statistics, State
Sanatorium for Consumptives, State board of health, State board of
soldiers' relief. Forestry, Fish, and Game: James W. Stainton, of
Providence, R.I., exhibit of game birds and fish of Rhode Island. Palace
of Agriculture: State board of agriculture, Rhode Island College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Under an act of the legislature approved March 11, 1903, South Dakota
appropriated the sum of $35,000 for the purpose of exhibiting the
resources, the products, and the industrial, commercial, and social
progress and general development of the State of South Dakota at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A commission was also constituted, which
consisted of three persons appointed by the governor, selected entirely
with regard to their familiarity with the resources, arts, and products
of the State, their business