LXIV ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



buildings and appurtenances, including lire protection, pier landings, 

 approaches, and other construction; not exceeding fifteen thousand 

 dollars may be expended for an exhibit of negro education and indus- 

 tr}", and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be used for con- 

 tingent expenses of the commissioner-general, to be expended in his 

 discretion and audited on his certificate; and the limit of the appro- 

 priations provided for in said paragraph, as amended b}^ the sundry 

 civil appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-nine, is hereby extended to one million one hundred and nine- 

 teen thousand five hundred dollars; the appropriation hereby made to 

 be available until expended: Provided., That the Commissioner of 

 Patents is authorized and directed to allow such patent models as have 

 been previously exhibited at any international exposition as the Sec- 

 retaiy of the Interior may select, to be transported to and from and 

 exhibited at said exposition in the custody of an employee of the 

 Patent Ofiice duly designated for that purpose b}" the Commissioner 

 of Patents; such models to be returned to the Patent Office at the 

 close of the exposition; but no models shall be removed concerning 

 which litigation is now pending. 



For six additional commissioners, to be appointed as provided by 

 the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninetj^-eight, who shall perform the duties and be subject to 

 the limitations prescribed therein, at three thousand dollars each, 

 eighteen thousand dollars. (Urgent deficiency act for 1900, approved 

 February 9, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, S-t.) 



NEW YORK PKINTING EXPOSITION. 



JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the exhibit of Government relics at the New 

 York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, nineteen hundred. 



Remlved hy tlie Senate and' House of Representatives of tfie United 

 States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of the 

 Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to exhibit 

 at the New York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, 

 nineteen hundred, a geometrical scroll machine, and such other articles 

 now in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; also "a picture of 

 Governor William Allen, of Ohio, on a saw blade," now in the posses- 

 sion of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department; also 

 copies of charts of Hell Gate, the Battery, and other New York City 

 points, to be printed from original copperplates now in the possession 

 of the Coast and Geodetic Survey", and such other articles in said 

 bureaus as may be of interest to the printing trades. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized 

 in his discretion to exhibit at said exposition medical catalogues, old 

 volumes, Avorks in Russian and other foreign tongues, now in the pos- 

 session of the Surgeon-General of the Army; also samples of work 



