LIT ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



second line thereof by adding after the word "including," the follow- 

 ing words: the selection, purchase, preparation, installation, care and. 

 (Urgent deficiency act, approved January 28, 1898 ; Statutes of 1897-98, 

 p. 236.) 



JOINT RESOLUTION Extending limit of cost of the Government building or build- 

 ings at the Transniississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, 

 and reducing cost of Government exhibit. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury 

 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed 

 and completed, at an additional cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars, 

 the Government building at the Transmississippi and International 

 Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, as shown and called for by the plans, 

 drawings, and specifications on which bids were taken for its erection, 

 and so forth; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 

 hereby, further authorized and directed to cause to be erected at said 

 exposition a building for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving 

 Service, at a cost not to exceed for said building the sum of two thou- 

 sand five hundred dollars; and to enable the Secretary of the Treasury 

 to give effect to, and execute the provisions of, this act, the limit of 

 cost of the Government building or buildings authorized to be erected 

 at said exposition is hereby extended from fifty thousand dollars to 

 sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the cost of the Govern- 

 ment exhibit at said exposition is hereby reduced from one hundred 

 fifty thousand dollars to one hundred thirty-seven thousand five hun- 

 dred dollars. (Approved, December 18, 1897.) 



JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to rent lighting 

 apparatus for Government building at Transmississippi and International Expo- 

 sition. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury 

 be, and he is hereby, authorized to rent electric wiring and lamps for 

 the lighting of the exterior of the building for the Government exhibit 

 at the Transmississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, 

 Nebraska, if, in his judgment, such course will be less expensive than 

 to wire the building and furnish lamps therefor; the expense thereof 

 to be paid from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the 

 construction of said building. (Approved, May 18, 1898; Statutes of 

 1897-98, p. 743.) 



PARIS EXPOSITION. 



The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 

 shall appoint a commissioner-general to represent the United States 

 at the exposition to be held in Paris, France, commencing April fif- 

 teenth and closing November fifth, nineteen hundred, and, under the 



