LVIII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support or 

 liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said commission in 

 excess of appropriations made by Congress therefor. 



Sec. 8. That the appropriation herein made of five hundred thousand 

 dollars in all shall take effect and become available immediately upon 

 the passage of this Act. 



(Approved, March 3, 1899, Statutes, XXX, 1022.) 



PARIS EXPOSITION. 



Parh Exposition. — For each and every purpose named in the para- 

 graph in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved Jul}' first, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under the heading ''Paris Expo- 

 sition," seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which amount not 

 exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dollars ma}^ be used for 

 clerk hire in the United States and in Paris, and the limit of appropri- 

 ations provided for in the provisions of said paragraph shall be extended 

 three hundred thousand dollars, or to nine hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars in all, said appropriation to be available until expended: 

 Providech That of said latter sum one hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars shall be for the exhibits by the Secretary of Agriculture pro- 

 vided for in said paragraphs. 



For the construction of necessary buildings in connection with said 

 exposition, two hundred thousand dollars, to be innnediately available. 



For pay of jurors, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may 

 be necessary, to be available until expended; and the sums herein and 

 heretofore appropriated on account of the Paris Exposition shall be in 

 full of all appropriations to be made on account of said Exposition by 

 Congress, and no deficiency shall be created therein. (Sundry civil 

 Act for 1900, approved March 3, 1899. Statutes XXX, HIT.) 



OHIO CENTENNIAL AND NORTHWEST TERRITORY EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT to encourage the holding of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 

 Exposition at the city of Toledo, Ohio. 



Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of the Ohio Cen- 

 tennial and Northwest Territory Exposition at the city of Toledo, in the 

 State of Ohio, in the year nineteen hundred and two or nineteen hun- 

 dred and three, as the Ohio general assembl}^ may hereafter determine, 

 for the exhibition of the resources of the United States of America, 

 Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines, and the progress and 

 civilization of the American countries, and for a display of the arts, 

 industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea; and 



Whereas it is desirable to commemorate by an appropriate naval 

 display the important victory of Commodore Perry in the western 



