said protocol and law to be
made public for the information and guidance of citizens of the United
States.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of October, A.D. 1874, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth.

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

WASHINGTON, _January 23, 1874_.

Whereas it has been brought to the notice of the President of the United
States that in the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and
Products of the Soil and Mine to be held in the city of Philadelphia
in the year 1876 for the purpose of celebrating the one hundredth
anniversary of the independence of the United States it is desirable
that from the Executive Departments of the Government of the United
States in which there may be articles suitable for the purpose intended
there should appear such articles and materials as will, when presented
in a collective exhibition, illustrate the functions and administrative
faculties of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war
power, and thereby serve to demonstrate the nature of our institutions
and their adaptations to the wants of the people:

Now, for the purpose of securing a complete and harmonious arrangement
of the articles and materials designed to be exhibited from the
Executive Departments of the Government, it is ordered that a board
to be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the
Executive Departments which may have articles and materials to be
exhibited, and also of one person to be named in behalf of the
Smithsonian Institution and one to be named in behalf of the Department
of Agriculture, be charged with the preparation, arrangement, and
safe-keeping of such articles and materials as the heads of the several
Departments and the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Director of the
Smithsonian Institution may respectively decide shall be embraced in the
collection; that one of the persons thus named, to be designated by the
President, shall be chairman of such board, and that the board appoint
from their own number such other officers as they may think necessary;
and that the said board when organized be authorized, under the
direction of the President,