And whereas, The requirements of the first and second sections of the above-recited
Ordinance have been fully carried out and completed, and it is expected that said Conmiis-
sion will meet in the City of Philadelphia on the fourth day of March, 1872;

And whereas. The Ordinance above recited only pledges the faith of the city that an
appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be made to pay the necessary expenses
of the contemplated first meeting of the United States Centennial Commissioners; now,
therefore,

Section I. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain.
That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to
defray the expenses of and incident to the first meeting and organization of the United
States Centennial Commissioners ; all bills to be approved by the Joint Committee of Coun-
cils on Celebration of Centennial Anniversary, and the warrants therefor to be drawn by
the Mayor.
LOUIS y^AGl^ER, President of Common Council.
W. E. LITTLETON, President of Select Council.
Attest: JOSEPH H. VAIST, Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and
seventy-two (a.d. 1872).
WILLIAM S. STOKLEY, Mayor of Philadelphia.
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Approved November 4, 1872.
An Ordinance to make an appropriation to pay the currettt and incidental expenses of
the United States Centennial Commission, and for opening books of subscription in the
several States and Terrilories, and organizing the Centennial Board of Pinance.
