1748 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
June 8, 1896. 
Deficiency act for 1896, ete. 
Board of control: To pay amounts found due by the accounting offi- 
cers of the Treasury, on account of the appropriation for ‘‘ Expenses, 
Government Board of Control, World’s Columbian Exposition,” $247. 
To enable Thomas W. Palmer, President of the World’s Columbian 
Commission, to make payment for all claims now due and outstanding 
against said commission, $6,517.67, which shall be in full for all such 
claims. 
(Stat., XXIX, 270.) 
Division of awards: That the compositors and pressmen employed 
in the awards division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall 
be allowed leave of absence with pay not exceeding thirty days in any 
one year, or a pro rata portion thereof for a less time than one year, 
under such regulations and such time or times as the chief of the 
Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may pre- 
scribe and designate, and in conformity with the act approved July 
6, 1892, granting leaves of absence with pay to the employees of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and for this purpose the sum of 
$3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. 
(Stat., X XTX, 275.) 
Indian exhibit: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers 
of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for ‘* Indian exhibit, 
World’s Columbian Exposition,” to adjust appropriation, $27.07. 
(Stat., X XIX, 293.) 
Nashville Exposition. 
May 18, 1896. 
Joint resolution No. 53, authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Ten- 
nessee Centennial Exposition, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, in 
1897, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective 
countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits 
and allowing articles imported from foreign countries for the sole pur- 
pose of exhibition at said exposition to be imported free of duty, under 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
(Stat., XXLX, 473). 
December 22, 1896. 
Be it enacted, etc., That there shall be exhibited at the Tennessee 
Centennial Exposition, to be held at Nashville, Tennessee, in the year 
1897, by the Government of the United States, from its Executive 
Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and 
the United States Fish Commission, such articles and materials as 
illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government 
in time of peace and its resources as a war power, tending to demon- 
strate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants 
of the people; and to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement 
