y of Washington, this 1st day of July, A.D. 1873, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-seventh.

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1871, providing for a
national celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the
independence of the United States by the holding of an International
Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine in
the city of Philadelphia in the year 1876, it is provided as follows:

That whenever the President shall be informed by the governor of the
State of Pennsylvania that provision has been made for the erection of
suitable buildings for the purpose, and for the exclusive control by
the commission herein provided for of the proposed exhibition, the
President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of
the same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open and
the place at which it will be held; and he shall communicate to the
diplomatic representatives of all nations copies of the same, together
with such regulations as may be adopted by the commissioners, for
publication in their respective countries.

And whereas his excellency the governor of the said State of
Pennsylvania did, on the 24th day of June, 1873, inform me that
provision has been made for the erection of said buildings and for the
exclusive control by the commission provided for in the said act of the
proposed exhibition; and

Whereas the president of the United States Centennial Commission has
officially informed me of the dates fixed for the opening and closing of
the said exhibition and the place at which it is to be held:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the
United States, in conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress
aforesaid, do hereby declare and proclaim that there will be held at the
city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, an International
Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, to
be opened on the 19th day of April, A.D. 1876, and to be closed on the
19th day of October, in the same year.

And in the interest of peace, civilization, and domestic and
international friendship and intercourse, I commend the celebration and
exhibition to the people of the United Stat