JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No 12.

Joint Resolution relating to the proposed
World's Exposition in honor of the four hun-
dredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer-
ica by Columbus.

WHEREAS it is proposed to establish a perma-

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nent exposition of the three Americas at
Washington, the Capital of the United
States; and

WHEREAS it is proposed that this project be
inaugurated by a Constitutional Centennial

Preamble.

Celebration in eighteen hundred and eigh-
ty-nine, by the sixteen American Republics
in honor of the one hundredth anniversary
of the Constitution of the present Republic,
the United States; and

WHEREAS it is proposed to consummate it by

Preamble.

a grand World's Exposition in eighteen hun-
dred and. ninety-two, in honor of the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus; therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That we heartily approve of the

Preamble.

project as a matter of transcendent import-
ance to the United States and the whole
Western Hemisphere, and that we urge Con-
gress to support it in a manner, worthy of
these great historical events, and of the great-
ness, grandeur and dignity of the nation.

Approval.