. Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive . hibition will be opened on the first day of May. in tlie year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and will not be closed before the lastThursday in October of the same year. And in tlie name of the Government and of the people of the United States, I do herebyinvite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event that ispreeminent in human history and of lasting interest to mankind, by appointing representa-tives ther
. Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive . hibition will be opened on the first day of May. in tlie year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and will not be closed before the lastThursday in October of the same year. And in tlie name of the Government and of the people of the United States, I do herebyinvite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event that ispreeminent in human history and of lasting interest to mankind, by appointing representa-tives thereto, and sending .sxich exhibits to the Worlds Columbian Exposition as willmost fitly and fully illustrate their resources, their industries and their progress in civili-zation. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the UnitedStates to be afiixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of ourLord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety, and the independence of the United Statesthe one hundred and fifteenth. By the President,. Secretary of State. The proclamation, accompanied liy a letter of the Secretary of State, regulationsfor foreign exhibitors, regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury governing the freeimportation of the exhibits and the prospectus of a proposed Worlds Congress Auxili-ary of the W^orlds Columbian Exposition, was sent to the following countries early inJanuary: Argentine Eepublic, Siberia, Austria, Hungary, Mexico, Belgium, Nether-lands, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Persia, Peru, Guatemala, Portugal, Salvador, Ron-mania, Nicaragua, Russia, Honduras, Servia, Costa Rica, Siam, Chili, Spain, China,Sweden and Norwaj, Colomliia, Switzerland, Corea, Turkey, Denmark, United King-dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, France, etc. Ground was broken for the first building at Jackson Park, that of Mines andMining, July 2, 1891. In April, 1892, the second annual meeting of the stockholderso
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