t to draft of the treasurer
of said board, countersigned by the president of the board."

Very respectfully,
WALTER B. STEVENS,
_Secretary._

The PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS,
_Administration Building._

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,
_Office of the Secretary, March 5, 1904._

MADAM PRESIDENT: I have this day received by deposit from the
Government loan the sum of $100,000, made available to the board
of lady managers by special act of Congress. This sum will be
held by me subject to draft of the treasurer of the board of
lady managers, countersigned by the president of the board of
lady managers.

Very respectfully,
W.H. THOMPSON,
_Treasurer._

To Mrs. DANIEL MANNING,
_President Board of Lady Managers._

The following is the provision made in the urgent deficiency bill, which
was passed on February 18, 1904, which secured to the board of lady
managers a sum sufficient to enable them to meet any obligations which
they might assume in the conduct of their participation in the affairs
of the exposition:

_Provided_, That of said sums $100,000 shall be paid by said
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to, or on the order of,
the board of lady managers of said exposition for such purposes
as said board of lady managers shall approve, and at such times
as said board of lady managers shall request the same.

FINAL REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

Immediately after the election of Mrs. Daniel Manning to the
presidency of the board of lady managers, on December 16, 1903,
a new legislative committee was appointed to succeed the one
that had been created by Mrs. James L. Blair, the former
president. The committee was composed of Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs.
Coleman, and Mrs. Buchwalter, chairman, and instructed to
endeavor to procure from Congress an appropriation of $100,000
for the use of the board, in order that it might be enabled to
perform in a proper manner the purposes for which it had been
brought into existence.

It had become evident that the Exposition Company would require
a much larger amount of money than was then at its command in
order to inaugurate and successfully continue the World's Fair.
The men who had engineered the magnificent undertaking to this
point in its development reasoned that, as they had already
expended a su