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 I. N. FLEISCHNER, Portland. Or.

A. L. MILLS, Portland. Or.

of the Board of Directors

priations to assist Oregon in holding the Centennial.

Fourth—A like letter to be sent to the Governors of the States of California and Nevada, inviting them to recommend participation by their States in the Pacific Coast enterprise, and asking each State to make appropriations for State exhibits.

Fifth—Alike letter to the Governors of the States west of the Mississippi, and particularly the Governor of the State of Missouri, urging upon each of them co-operation, and inviting them to ask the co-operation of their States, and the transfer of their exhibits from St. Louis, in 1904. to the Lewis and Clark Centennial.

J. C AINSWORTH, Portland, Or. of the Board of Directors

Sixth — A formal communication to the President of the United States, asking him to send a special message to Congress, recommending Congressional aid, and the transfer of the exhibits from the Philippines and other territorial possessions, gathered for the St. Louis Exposition, and a direct appropriation of $2,000,000, to be expended by United States Commissioners, of which $250,000 shall be used for the erection by the United States of a Lewis and Clark memorial building, to contain therein statues of Thomas JeflFerson, Thomas H. Benton, Lewis F. Linn, James K. Polk, George M. Dallas, the great explorers, Lewis and Clark, Albert Gallatin, and perhaps two or three other such buildings, to be located on a site donated to the City of Portland and to be maintained as the home of the Oregon Historical Society, and other public bodies, and to be devoted to useful knowledge and the arts forever.

Seventh — A plan by which each State a«d the general government may be efficiently approached, with a view to their active cooperation, and ^ the employment of some suitable man or committee of persons, to take active charge of this matter at once.

The Executive Committee is charged under the by-laws with the duty of adopting the plan and scope of the Exposition. No steps have yet been taken in this direction, nor will anything be done until the State Legislatures, including Oregon, and the Congress of the Ignited Mates make their appropriations. The Exposition will be just as large as the money available will make it. The Company will keep within its means and success will crown its every effort.