ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLV 



employees and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, 

 fifty-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from 

 the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the 

 Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated 

 five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the 

 Zoological Park from Woodley lane and opening driveway into Zoolog- 

 ical Park from said entrance along the bank of Eock Creek. (Sundry 

 civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth 

 Congress, first session, p. 22.) 



OMAHA EXPOSITION. 



Omaha Exposition. — For construction of building or buildings and 

 for Government exhibit, including each and every purpose connected 

 therewith, at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at the 

 city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, as provided by and within 

 the limitations and restrictions of the act approved June tenth, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to authorize and encourage 

 the holding of a Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at the 

 city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-eight," including the return of said Government exhibit, 

 two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. (Sundry 

 civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth 

 Congress, first session, p. 26.) 



TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at 

 Nashville, Tennessee, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and making 

 an appropriation therefor. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be exhibited 

 at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, to be held at Nashville, 

 Tennessee, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, by the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, from its Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States 

 Fish Commission, such articles and materials as illustrate the function 

 and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace and its 

 resources as a war jDower, tending to demonstrate the nature of our 

 institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people; and to 

 secure complete and harmonious arrangement of said Government 

 exhibit a board of management shall be created, to be charged with the 

 selection, purchase, preparation, arrangement, safe-keeping, and exhibi- 

 tion of such articles and materials as the heads of said de]Dartments 

 and institutions of the Government may, resi)ectively, decide shall be 

 embraced in said Government exhibit. The President may also desig- 

 nate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall be composed 



