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pleted, at an additional cost not to exceed $10,000, the Government 
building at the Transmississippi and International Exposition at 
Omaha, Nebraska, as shown and called for by the plans, drawings, and 
specifications on which bids were taken for its erection, and so forth; 
and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, further 
authorized and directed to cause to be erected at said exposition a 
building for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at a 
cost not to exceed for said building the sum of $2,500; and to enable 
the Secretary of the Treasury to give effect to, and execute the pro- 
visions of this act, the limit of cost of the Government building or 
buildings authorized to be erected at said exposition is hereby 
extended from $50,000 to $62,500; and the cost of the Government 
exhibit at said exposition is hereby reduced from $150,000 to $137,500. 
(Stat., XXX, 732.) 
January 28, 1898. 
- Urgent deficiency act for 1898, ete. 
That the paragraph in the ‘‘act making appropriation for sundry 
civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1898, and for other purposes,” approved June 4, 1897, making appro- 
priation of $200,000 for construction of building or buildings and 
for Government exhibit, be amended in the 2d line thereof by adding 
after the word, ‘‘ including,” the following words: thé selection, pur- 
chase, preparation, installation, care, and. 
(Stat., XXX, 236.) . 
May 18, 1898. 
Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 
hereby, authorized to rent electric wiring and lamps for the lighting 
of the exterior of the building for the Government exhibit at the 
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, 
if, in his judgment, such course will be less expensive than to wire the 
building and furnish lamps therefor; the expense thereof to be paid 
from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction 
of said building. 
(Stat., XXX, 743.) 
July 8, 1898—Senate. 
Mr. Joun M. Tuurston, from Select Committee on International 
Expositions, submitted a resolution: 
That the necessary expenses of the committee of fifteen Senators appointed under 
Senate resolution of July 8, 1898, to be present at the Transmississippi and Interna- 
tional Exposition now being held at Omaha, Nebraska, be, and the same are hereby, 
authorized and directed to be paid out of the miscellaneous items of the contingent 
fund of the Senate, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and 
Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. 
Referred to Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses 
of Senate. 
