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the purpose of being transported to and from and exhibited at said 
exposition, as may be requested by the commissioner-general, when- 
ever authorized to do so, respectively, by the heads of the Departments 
and the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries and the Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution; such exhibits and articles to be returned to 
the said respective departments to which they belong at the close of 
the exposition. It shall be the duty of the commissioner-general to 
report to the President, for transmission to Congress at the beginning 
of each regular session, a detailed statement of the expenditures 
incurred hereunder during the twelve months preceding; and the com- 
missioner-general is hereby required, within four months after the 
close of said exposition, to make full report of the results thereof, as 
herein required, which report shall be prepared and arranged with a 
view to concise statement and convenient reference, and when printed 
shall not exceed six volumes octavo, containing an average of not 
exceeding one thousand pages. Toward the expenses herein author- 
ized, incident to the participation of the United States in said exposition, 
there is hereby appropriated the sum of $200,000, to be immediately 
available, and to remain available until expended, of which amount 
the sum of $20,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture in. 
the preparation of the agricultural exhibit herein provided for. 
(Stat., XXX, 645.) 
July 7, 1898. 
Resolved, etc., That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, author- 
ized and directed to print 6,000 copies of Senate Document 293, Fifty- 
fifth Congress, second session, known as the report of Thomas W. 
Cridler. Third Assistant Secretary of State, who was appointed a 
special commissioner in relation to the acceptance by the Government 
of the United States of the invitation of France to participate in the 
international exposition to be held at Paris from April 15 to Novem= 
ber 5, 1900, of which 1,000 copies are to be for the use of the Senate, 
2,000 copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and the 
remaining 3,000 copies to be placed at the disposal of the acting com- 
missioner for distribution to intending exhibitors and for the use of 
the permanent commission when it organizes. 
(Stat., XXX, 1802.) 
March 3, 1899. 
Sundry civil act for 1900. 
For each and every purpose named in the paragraph in the sundry 
civil appropriation act approved July 1, 1898, under the heading 
**Paris Exposition,” $750,000, of which amount not exceeding $120,000 
may be used for clerk hire in the United States and in Paris, and the 
limit of appropriations provided for in the provisions of said para- 
graph shall be extended $300,000, or to $950,000 in all, said appropri- 
ation to be ayailable until expended: Provided, That of said latter 
