Chapter 220. To provide for an appropriate National celebration of the establishment of the seat of Government in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 220.— An Act To provide for an appropriate National celebration of the establishment of the seat of Government in the District of Columbia. February 28, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Celebration of establishment of seat of Government in.Committees to prepare plans. The President is authorized to appoint a committee from the country at large, of such number as he shall think proper, to act with any committees that may be appointed by the two Houses of Congress, or either of them, and with any committee that may be appointed from the citizens of the District of Columbia, who may prepare plans for an appropriate National celebration, in the year nineteen hundred, of the first session of Congress in the District and the establishment of the seat of Government therein.
Said committee shall report their proceedings to the President, to be by him communicated to Congress. Sec. 2. Expenses. The actual expenses of the members of said committee so appointed by the President shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury on vouchers to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 3. Appropriation. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the second section of this Act.
Approved, February 28, 1899.