The Government has this day issued the following decree: Ministry of Foreign Relations. Decree. Montevideo, January 27, 1893. In view of the representation made by the Ministry of Public Works (Fomento) in a note of present date, the President of the Republic decrees: ARTICLE 1. The following are appointed as members of the Commission representing the Republic of Uruguay in the Universal Exposition at Chicago: President, Senor Don Prudencio de Murguiondo, Consul-General in the United States of North America; Special Commissioner, Don Lucio Rodriguez Diez; and Regular Commissioner, Don Alberto Gomez Ruano, Dr. Don Eduardo Chucarro, and Don Ricardo Hughes. ART. 2. The said Commissioners will arrange directly with the Central Commission at Montevideo in everything relating to their duties. ART. 3. Let this decree be published and recorded. Signed: HERRERA Y OBES, MANUEL HERRERO Y ESPINOSA. Any information regarding Uruguay will be cheerfully given by the Commissioners at Chicago till the Exposition closes, and after that by the Consul-General of Uruguay, at Washington, D. C., or the following Consuls and Vice-Consuls. _CONSULS._ THOMAS A. EDDY, NEW YORK. KAFAEL S. SALAS, SAVANNAH, GA. JOSE COSTA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LEONCE RABILLON, BALTIMORE, MD. JAMES E. MARRETT, PORTLAND, MAINE. EDUARDO FORNIAS, PHILADELPHIA. C. C. TURNER, CHICAGO, ILL. _VICE-CONSULS._ ARTHUR CARROLL, BOSTON, MASS. THOMAS C. WATSON, PENSACOLA, FLA. HENRY T. DUNN, BRUNSWICK, GA. W. A. MURCHIE, CALAIS, MAINE. N. B. BORDEN, FERNANDINA, FLA. JAMES HAUGHTON, {NORFOLK, NEWPORT NEWS { AND YORKTOWN. GEORGE A. BARKSDALE, RICHMOND, VA. WILLIAM N. HARRIS, WILMINGTON, N. C. G. H. GREEN, NEW ORLEANS. F. B. GENOVAE, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. CHARLES F. HUCHET, CHARLESTON, S. C. R. W. STEWART, BANGOR, MAINE. ALFRED THOMAS SHAW, MOBILE, ALA. ARTHUR HOMER, GALVESTON, TEXAS. H. F. KREBS, PASCAGOULA, MISS. THE ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY. (SOUTH AMERICA.) Discovery--Situation--Limits--Configuration--Perimeter--Superficies. The territory of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, situated within the temperate zone of South America, was discovered in the beginning of the sixteenth century by the famous Spanish cosmographer, Juan Diaz de Solis. Its geographical situation is comprised between the 30°, 5' and 35° degrees of latitude S. and the 56th 15' and 60th 45' of longitude W., according to the Paris meridian. North and eastward it confines with the United States of Brazil, and westward with the Argentine Republic.