Excerpt from Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia At a meeting of the committee held on December 20, 1900, and on motion of 'mr. Edson, the committee requested the secretary to undertake the preparation of a report on the Centennial Celebration. 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.