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February 17, 1898. 
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, 1897-1899. ee 833: 
sum $150,000 shall be for the exhibits by the Secretary of Agriculture 
provided for in said paragraphs. 
For the construction of necessary buildings in connection with said 
exposition, $200,000, to be immediately available. 
For pay of jurors, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
to be available until expended; and the sums herein and heretofore 
appropriated on account of the Paris Exposition shall be in full of all 
appropriations to be made on account of said exposition by Congress, 
and no deficiency shall be created therein. 
’ For the purpose of aiding in defraying the cost of a pedestal and 
completing in a suitable manner the work of erecting a monument in 
the city of Paris to General Lafayette, designed by the Lafayette 
Memorial Commission as a feature of the participation of the United 
States in the Paris Exposition of 1900, the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase in the market $25,000 
worth of silver bullion, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 
the purpose herein provided for, from which there shall be coined: at 
the mints of the United States silver dollars of the legal weight and 
fineness to the number of 50,000 pieces, to be known as the Lafayette 
dollar, struck in commemoration of the erection of a monument to 
General Lafayette, in the city of Paris, France, by the youth of the 
United States, the devices and designs upon which coins shall be ~ 
prescribed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and all provisions of law relative to the 
_ coinage and legal tender quality of the present silver dollars shall be 
applicable to the coins issued under this act, and when so coined there 
is hereby appropriated from the Treasury the said 50,000 of souvenir 
dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to place the 
same at the disposal of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, a com- 
mission organized under the direction and authority of the Commis- 
sioner-General for the United States to the Paris Exposition of 1900. 
(Stat., XXX, 1117.) 
Bergen Fisheries Exposition. 
Joint resolution. 
Whereas the United States have been duly invited by the Govern- 
ment of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition 
to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May 16 to September 
30, anno Domini 1898, which exposition will alsd include national 
sections for industries, agriculture, and the fine arts: Therefore, 
Lesolwed, etc., That said invitation is accepted, and that the Com- 
missioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby directed, in person or by a 
deputy to be appointed by the President of the United States, and 
whose compensation, if not in the public service, shall not exceed $2,500, 
