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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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sion of the Secretary of War);the sum of $50,000 for a permanent monument to be erected atJamestown; the sum of $15,000 for permanent moorings in HamptonRoads, and $10,000 for exhibiting an old type of monitor on the actualscene of the Civil War conflict between the Monitor and Merrimac. By the amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill,passed by the 59th Congress, the sum of $200,000 was appropriatedto defray the expense of collecting, installing and maintaining Govern-ment exhibits by the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution andthe National Museum, the Treasury, Interior, Post-Office, War andNavy Departments, Life Saving Service, Revenue Cutter Service,the Army, the Navy, the Lighthouse Service, the Bureau of Fisheriesand an exhibit from Porto Rico. For establishing and maintaining an exhibit of the UnitedStates Life Saving Service and to erect a Fisheries Building, also tobuild a club-house as a rendezvous for soldiers and sailors, the sumof $350,000 was appropriated.
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£ 3 0 T) 3 h- . -J 10 < 3 a. 11 u. </) _J CQ 0 2 0) (j l; D C < Jamestown Exposition 133 In order to provide a pier as an accommodation to visitorsdesiring to view the fleet or come from the fleet to the grounds, whichharbor should furnish ten feet of water at low tide, the appropriationwas $400,000. Presidents Proclamation On March 29, 1905, President Roosevelt issued the followingproclamation as an invitation to all nations to participate: By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation Whereas, The Congress of the United States has passed an Actapproved March 3, 1905, and entitled, An Act to provide for cele-brating the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settle-ment of English-speaking people on the Western Hemisphere, bythe holding of an international naval, marine, and military celebra-tion in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads,in the State of Virginia; to provide for a suitable and

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