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as may be necessary; and the number of persons who may at one time 
_be enlisted into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordi- 
nary seamen, landsmen, mechanics, firemen, and coal heavers, and 
including 1,500 apprentices and boys, hereby authorized to be enlisted 
annually, shall not exceed 9;000. And the Secretary of the Navy be, 
and he is hereby, authorized, empowered, and directed to define and 
establish suitable anchorage grounds in Hampton Roads and in New 
York Harbor during the continuance of the naval rendezvous and 
review to be held in pursuance of the provisions of section 8 of the 
act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, creating the World’s Colum- 
bian Exposition; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby further 
authorized to make such rules and regulations regarding the move- 
ments of all vessels in the roadstead and harbor named as may be nec- 
essary in order to insure the proper and orderly conduct of said naval 
rendezvous and review and provide for the safety of the vessels par- 
ticipating therein; and such rules and regulations when so issued and 
published shall have the force and effect of law. 
(Stat. X XVII, 730.) 
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, 1897-1899. 
EXPOSITIONS. 
Chicago Exposition. 
July 19, 1897. 
Deficiency act for 1897, ete. 
For rental of building for the division of awards, Bureau of Engray- 
ing and Printing, occupied by said Bureau in the execution of the 
work of delivering the awards of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 
at a rental of $60 per month, $720. 
(Stat. XXX, 109). 
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury 
on account of the appropriation ‘‘Synopsis of Department reports, 
World’s Columbian Exposition,” $98.45. 
For payment to N. E. Dawson, for services rendered the World’s 
Columbian Commission, $500. 
(Stat. XXX, 112). 
Omaha Exposition. 
July 1, 1898. 
Indian act for 1899. 
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized 
to cause to be assembled at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, 
at such time and for such period as he may designate, between the first 
days of June and November, anno Domini 1898, representatives of 
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