Excerpt from Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia "To print the report of the Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia, held in the city of Washington, December twelfth, nineteen hundred, together with the proceedings and public addresses on the commemoration of that event, in a memorial volume, with suitable illustrations as selected by the committee, one thousand five, hundred copies for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand five hundred copies for distribution by the citizens' committee on the celebration, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; of which amount the sum of five hundred dollars shall be available for the preparation of the report and for obtaining the necessary material for illustrating the same. That the work shall be done under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, and for prior years, and for other purposes." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.