LIV ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



aforesaid sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and reports 

 respecting such exhibits, printed in the English, French, and Ge'rman 

 languages, shall accompany such exhibits, as the commissioner-general 

 may direct. All officers and employees of the Executive Departments 

 and of the Fish Commission and of the Smithsonian Institution, in 

 charge of or responsible for the safe-keeping of exhibits belonging to 

 the United States, may permit such exhibits to pass out of their pos- 

 session for the purpose of being transported to and from and exhibited 

 at said exposition, as may be requested by the commissioner-general, 

 whenever authorized to do so, respectively, by the heads of the Depart- 

 ments and the Commisioner of Fish and Fisheries and the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution; such exhibits and articles to be returned 

 to the said respective Departments to which they belong at the close of 

 the exposition. It shall be the duty of the commissioner-general to 

 report to the President, for transmission to Congress at the beginning 

 of each regular session, a detailed statement of the expenditures 

 incurred hereunder during the twelve months preceding; and the com- 

 missioner-general is hereby required, within four months after the close 

 of said exposition, to make full report of the results thereof, as herein 

 required, which report shall be prepared and arranged with a view to 

 concise statement and convenient reference, and when printed shall 

 not exceed six volumes octavo, containing an average of not exceeding 

 one thousand pages. Toward the expenses herein authorized, incident 

 to the participation of the United States in said exposition, there is 

 hereby appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be 

 immediately available, and to remain available until expended, of 

 which amount the sum of twenty thousand dollars may be used by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture in the preparation of the agricultural exhibit 

 herein provided for. (Sundry civil act, approved July 1, 1898; Statutes 

 of 1897-98, chap. 546, p. 645.) 



BUFFALO EXPOSITION. 



JOINT RESOLUTION Regarding the holding of a Pan-American Exposition in the 

 year nineteen hundred and one upon Cayuga Island, between the cities of Buffalo 

 and Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, to illustrate the development of the 

 Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth century. 



Whereas there has been duly incorporated, under the laws of the 

 State of New York, by citizens of said State, a company organized for 

 the purpose and with the object of preparing and holding a Pan- 

 American Exposition on Cayuga Island, near Niagara Falls, New 

 York, in the year nineteen hundred and one, to fittingly illustrate the 

 marvelous development of the Western Hemisphere during the nine- 

 teenth century and to appropriately celebrate the opening of the twen- 

 tieth century by a demonstration of the reciprocal relations existing 

 between the American Eepublics and colonies; and 



