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 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE F.lFTl ·Sl}&TH CON GR-ESS OF THE UNITED SV[`ATES Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of TVash.ington, in the District of Columbia, on llknday the third day of December, 1900, and was aoyourned without day on Jllonday the fourth day of Illbrch, 1.901. WILLIABI lVlCKINLE1’, President; WILLIAM P. FRYE, President of the Senate pro tempore; DAVID B. Hnnnnnsox, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-An Act In relation to the celebration of the centennial anniversary December 7,1900. of the establishment of the permanent seat of government in the District of Columbia. ·* * · Whereas the Senate and House of Representatives have each Preauwleappointed a committee to act with other committees appointed resipectively by the President of the United States and by the citizens o the District of Columbia (in a inass meeting assembled), which committees have in charge the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the permanent seat of government in the District of Columbia; and Whereas said committees have in joint session adopted a plan of celebration which has been submitted to the President of the United States and by him transmitted to Congress, such plan pro osing as a feature of the celebration the holding by the Senate and) House of Representatives, jointly, commemorative exercises in the Hall of the House of Representatives in the afternoon of the twelfth day of December, nineteen hundred, in honor of the centennial anniversary of the first session of Con ress held in the permanent capital: Therefore, Be it enacted by t/ge Senate and House of Rqvresentatirves of the D9: i ted States of A-m-erica in Congress assembled, That the two Houses of Con- Ié§g{)•;;g;0Q1¤1¤1{¤lQ¤· gress shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on ized of eeuteuiiiiitillit the twelfth day of December, nineteen hundred, at the hour of half §§§§“},?`,‘;§§S,‘f}bg§l$j past three o’clock post meridian, and that addresses on subjects bear- °*¤m¢¤°i¤· ing on the celebration shall be made by Senators and Representatives to be chosen by the joint committee mentioned in the preamble; that the .I¤ri*¤¢i<>¤¤ w exer President and ex-Presidents of the United States, the heads of the sev- °is°S` eral Executive Departments, the Justices of the Supreme Court, representatives of foreign Governments accredited to this Government, the governors of the several States and Territories, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Lieutenant-General of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy, officers of the Army and Navy who have received the thanks of Congress, and all persons who have the privilege of the iioor either of the Senate or the House, be, and are hereby, invited to be pres- ent on the occasion, and that the members of the committee from the country at large, the members of the said citizens? committee, and the 725