FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1751 
January 21, 1897. 
Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 
hereby, authorized to solicit proposals and to contract for the erection 
of the building for Government exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial 
Exposition, authorized by the act of Congress approved December 22, 
1896, without public advertisement. 
(Stat., X-XIX, 698.) 
Atlanta Haposition. 
June 8, 1896. 
Deficiency act for 1896, ete. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to 
transfer to the city of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia, all of the 
right, title, claim, and interest of the United States in and to the build- 
ing erected for the Government exhibit at the Cotton States and 
International Exposition recently held in said city. 
(Stat., X XIX, 271.) 
June 11, 1896. 
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Sundry civil act for 1897. 
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized and 
directed to pay over to the Cotton States and International Exposition 
Company, to reimburse said company for expenses incurred and paid 
in connection with the Government building and exhibit, all those por- 
tions of the appropriations heretofore made under the act of August 
18, 1894, for the building and for the exhibit by the Government at 
the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia, 
which shall remain unexpended after all the liabilities incurred by the 
Government on account of said building and exhibit shall have been 
fully paid off and discharged. 
(Stat., XXTX, 454.) 
Omaha Exposition. 
June 10, 1896. 
An act. 
Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of a trans-Missis- 
sippi and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State 
of Nebraska, in the year 1898, for the exhibition of the resources of 
the United States of America and the progress and civilization of the 
Western Hemisphere, and for a display of the arts, industries, manu- 
factures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea; and 
Whereas it is desirable that an exhibition shall be made of the great 
staples of the trans-Mississippi region, which contributes so largely to 
domestic and international commerce; and 
Whereas encouragement should be given to an exhibit of the arts, 
industries, manufactures, and products illustrative of the progress 
and development of that and other sections of the country; and 
Whereas such exhibition should be national as well as international 
in its character, in which the people of this country, of Mexico, the 
