XLVIII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of 

 labor and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation 

 of the Holt Mansion, including the accounts set forth hereunder in 

 House Document numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this 

 session, four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents. 

 (Deficiency appropriation act, approved June S, 1896, Statutes of the 

 Filty-fourth Congress, p. 279.) 



OMAHA EXPOSITION. 



Chai\ 402. — An Act To authorize and encourage the holding of a transmississippi 

 and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the 

 year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 



Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of a transmississippi 

 and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of 

 Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the 

 exhibition of the resources of the United States of America and the 

 progress and civilization of the Western Hemisphere, and for a display 

 of the arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and 

 sea; and 



Whereas it is desirable that an exhibition shall be made of the great 

 staples of the transmississippi region which contributes so largely to 

 domestic and international commerce; and 



Whereas encouragement should be given to an exhibit of the arts, 

 industries, manufactures, and products, illustrative of the progress and 

 development of that and other sections of the country; and 



Whereas such exhibition should be national as well as international 

 in its character, in which the people of this country, of Mexico, the 

 Central and South American Governments, and other States of the 

 world should participate, and should, therefore, have the sanction of 

 the Congress of the United States; and 



Whereas it is desirable and will be highly beneficial to bring together 

 at such an exposition, to be held at a central position in the western 

 part of the United States, the people of the United States and other 

 States of this continent; and 



Whereas the Transmississippi aud International Exposition Associa- 

 tion has undertaken to hold such exposition, beginning on the first day 

 of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and closing on the first 

 day of Xovember, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That a transmississippi and 

 international exposition shall be held at the city of Omaha, in the State 

 of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under the 

 auspices of the Transmississippi and International Exposition Associa- 

 tion : Provided, That the United States shall not be liable for any of 

 the expense attending or incident to such exrjosition, nor by reason of 

 the same. 



