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which exposition will also include national sections for industries, 

 agriculture, and the tine arts: Therefore, 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled. That said invitation is accepted, and 

 that the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby directed, in per- 

 son, 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 two thousand five hundred dollars, including personal and trav- 

 eling expenses, to represent the United States at said exposition, and to 

 cause a suitable and proper exhibition and display to be made at said 

 exposition of the food fishes of the United States, and the methods of 

 catching, salting, curing, and preserving the same, and of the imple- 

 ments and appliances used in carrying on the fishery industries of the 

 United States, and to this end may, with the consent of the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, use any portion of the fisheries collec- 

 tion in the National Museum at said exposition. 



That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maj- 

 be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the United 

 States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately availa- 

 ble, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, 

 to pay all the expenses and costs of representing the United States at 

 said exposition, as aforesaid, and to pay all the costs and expenses and 

 outlays pertaining or incident to the making and carrying on of the 

 exhibition and display aforesaid at said exposition : Provided, That the 

 total expenses and liabilities incurred under this resolution shall not 

 exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars. 



That the said Commissioner, or his deputy, is hereby directed to make 

 a full report to the Department of State of the participation of the 

 United States in said exposition, and of all the information and results 

 acquired and obtained at or by means of said exposition touching the 

 fishery industry throughout the world. (Approved, February 17, 1898; 

 Statutes of 1897-98, p. 734.) 



That the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Government 

 of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be 

 held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno 

 Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, approved January twenty- 

 fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, 

 repealed. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved July 7, 1898; Stat- 

 utes of 1897-98, chap. 571, p. 653.) 



OMAHA EXPOSITION. 



That the paragraph in the "Act making appropriation for sundry 

 civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," 

 approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, making 

 appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars for construction of 

 building or buildings and for Government exhibit, be amended in the 



