by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries,
manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and
sea, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,
approved March 3, 1901, a copy of which said act is hereto
attached.

As provided by law, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be
held in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, U.S.A., and
will be opened on the 30th day of April, A.D. 1903, and will be
closed on the 1st day of December of that year. The exposition
will be closed on Sundays.

This exposition will embrace an exhibition of arts, industries,
manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and
sea. It will be held to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary
of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States
from France.

The exposition will be international in character, as
contemplated by section 9 of the act of Congress, which reads as
follows:

"That whenever the President of the United States shall be
notified by the National Commission that provision has been made
for grounds and buildings, for the uses herein provided for, he
shall be authorized to make proclamation of the same, through
the Department of State, setting forth the time at which said
exposition will be held, and the purposes thereof, and he shall
communicate to the diplomatic representatives of foreign nations
copies thereof, together with such regulations as may be adopted