MADAM PRESIDENT:  I am directed by President Francis to inform you that the executive committee has approved the requisition of the board of lady managers for $100,000, made available to said board from the Government loan by special act of Congress, as set forth in the resolution adopted by the board March 3, 1904.

Acting in accordance with the instructions of the executive committee, the president has this day deposited, out of the Government loan, the sum of $100,000 with the treasurer, Mr. William H. Thompson, said sum to be drawn out by the board of lady managers in accordance with the resolutions adopted by the board; that is to say, to be “subject 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