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 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 1. BY run PRESIDENT or um UNITED sturns OF AMIEBICA. Sept. 10, 1883. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by the eighth section of an act entitled ‘•An act to encourage P’°*·mb1°- the holding of a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four", approved February 10, 1883, it was enacted as follows: “ That whenever the President shall be informed by the said board of W<>1‘ld’¤ I¤d¤¤· management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or the gg31m::;, C°t°°“ erection of the same, for the purposes of said exhibition, the President Bmw, N,,}:?)?; shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same leans. setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open, and the place at which it will be held, and such board of management shall communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations, copies of the same and a copy of this act, together with such regulations as may be adopted by said board of management for publication in their respect ive countries! And whereas the duly constituted Board of Managers of the aforesaid World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition has informed me that provision has been made for the erection of suitable buildings for the purposes of said exposition; _ Now, therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States D¤'*‘“°'*· of America, by authority of and in fuliillment of the requirements of said act approved February 10, 1883, do hereby declare and make known that the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition will be opened on the first Monday in December, 1884, at the city of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, and will there be holden continuously until the thirty-first day of May, 1885. · In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. · Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of September, one [SEAL] thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and of the Inde- ' pendence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. $iz¤¤¤¤‘¤¤ By the President: Fumix. T. FBELINGHUYSEN, Secretary of State. 833 xxm-—-53