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publishing results of researches, not exceeding 1,500 copies, repairs and alteration of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $10,000. (Stat., XXX, 1086.)

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For construction of building or buildings and for Government exhibit, including each and every purpose connected therewith, at the Transmississippi 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 10th, 1896, entitled "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 1898," including the return of said Government exhibit, $200,000, to be immediately available.

(Stat., XXX, 26.)

June 30, 1897.

Whereas the Transmississippi and International Exposition Company, of Omaha, Nebraska, has extended invitations to various foreign nations to make exhibits at the Transmississippi and International Exposition to be held at said city anno Domini 1898, which invitations have been accepted and space for installing foreign exhibits has been applied for and duly awarded, and concessions and privileges have been granted by the exposition management to the citizens and subjects of foreign nations; and

Whereas for the purpose of securing the production on the exposition grounds of scenes illustrative of the architecture, dress, habits, and modes of life, occupation, industries, means of locomotion and transportation, amusements, entertainments, and the like, of the peoples of foreign countries, it has become necessary for the Transmississippi and International Exposition Company to grant concessions and privileges to certain firms and corporations of the right to make such productions: Therefore be it

Resolved, etc., That the act of Congress approved February 26, anno Domini 1885, prohibiting the importation into the United States of foreigners under contract to perform labor and the various acts of Congress prohibiting the coming or bringing of Chinese persons into the United States, and all acts of Congress amendatory of said act or acts shall not be construed to prohibit the bringing into the United States, under contract to labor, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees or persons, natives of their respective foreign countries, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary for the purpose of making preparation for installing or conducting foreign exhibits; or preparing for installing or conducting any business

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authorized or permitted by virtue of any concession or privilege which may have been or may hereafter be granted by the Transmississippi and International Exposition Company of Omaha, Nebraska, in connection with such exposition. Nor shall any such act or acts of Congress operate to prevent, hinder, or in any manner restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen of a foreign nation, or holder of a concession or privilege from the Transmississippi and International Exposition Company, from bringing into the United States under contract any such mechanic, artisan, agent, or other employee deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of making preparations for installing or conducting foreign exhibits, or preparing for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitted under, or by virtue of, or pertaining to a concession or privilege which may have been or may be granted by the said Transmississippi and International Exposition Company in connection with such exposition: Provided, however, That no alien shall, by virtue of this resolution, be permitted to enter the United States to perform labor therein, except by express permission, naming such alien, and then not for a longer time than three months after the close of the Transmississippi and International Exposition; and thereafter such person shall be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to aliens coming into the United States in violation of any act of Congress prohibiting alien contract labor from being brought or coming into the United States.

SEC. 2. That all articles and property of any kind that may be brought to the United States from any foreign country to be placed on exhibition at such Transmississippi and International Exposition, as well as all tools and implements necessary or proper to be used in preparing for an exhibition and the equipment and paraphernalia of the exhibitors, artisans, laborers, and the like shall be admitted to the ports of the United States free of duty, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, however, That said articles shall be removed from the United States within six months after the close of said exposition. If not so removed, and the same shall be sold or disposed of in the United States, they shall be subject to the customs laws thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary, in his judg ment, to carry into execution the provisions hereof and to prohibit the infraction of existing statutes, except as the same may be temporarily modified and changed by this resolution.

(Stat., XXX, 222.)

December 18, 1897.

Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed and com

pleted, at an additional cost not to exceed $10,000, 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 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 $2,500; 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 $50,000 to $62,500; and the cost of the Government exhibit at said exposition is hereby reduced from $150,000 to $137,500. (Stat., XXX, 732.)

January 28, 1898.

Urgent deficiency act for 1898, etc..

That the paragraph in the "act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes," approved June 4, 1897, making appropriation of $200,000 for construction of building or buildings and for Government exhibit, be amended in the 2d line thereof by adding after the word, "including," the following words: the selection, purchase, preparation, installation, care, and.

(Stat., XXX, 236.)

May 18, 1898.

Resolved, etc., 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 Trans-Mississippi 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.

(Stat., XXX, 743.)

July 8, 1898-Senate.

Mr. JOHN M. THURSTON, from Select Committee on International Expositions, submitted a resolution:

That the necessary expenses of the committee of fifteen Senators appointed under Senate resolution of July 8, 1898, to be present at the Transmississippi and International Exposition now being held at Omaha, Nebraska, be, and the same are hereby, authorized and directed to be paid out of the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.

Referred to Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of Senate.

July 19, 1897.

Paris Exposition.

Deficiency act for 1897, etc.

That the invitation of the Republic of France to take part in an exposition of works of art and the products of manufactures and agriculture of all nations, to be held in Paris, commencing the 15th day of April and closing the 5th day of November, 1900, is accepted; and the governors of the several States and Territories be, and are hereby, requested to invite the people of their respective States and Territories to make a proper representation of the productions of our industry and of the natural resources of the country, and to take such further measures as may be necessary in order to secure to their respective States and Territories the advantages to be derived from this beneficent undertaking.

That the President shall appoint a special commissioner to represent the United States in the proposed exposition, who shall take all proper measures to provide for the representation of the industries and natural resources of the United States by their citizens in said exposition and shall procure proper space and privileges therefor and shall make report to the President, to be submitted to Congress, on the first day of its next regular session, containing his proceedings hereunder, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. For the compensation of said special commissioner, not to exceed $5,000, and for all necessary expenses and employment attendant thereon, the sum of $25,000 is hereby appropriated, to continue available until expended. (Stat., XXX, 106.)

March 7, 1898.

Resolved, etc., That there be printed 5,000 additional copies of the report of the special commissioner of the United States to the international exposition to be held at Paris, of which 500 copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 1,500 copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and 3,000 copies for distribution by the Third Assistant Secretary of State.

(Stat., XXX, 1796.)

July 1, 1898.

Sundry civil act for 1899.

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 at Paris, France, commencing April 15 and closing November 5, 1900, and, under the general direction of the President, to make all needful rules and regulations in reference to the contributions from the United States, subject to the approval of the President, and to control the expenditures incident to and necessary for the proper installation and exhibit thereof; and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall also appoint an assistant

commissioner-general, who shall assist and act under the direction of the commissioner-general and shall perform the duties of the commissioner-general in case of his death, disability, or temporary absence; and a secretary, who shall act as disbursing agent and shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the commissioner-general, shall render his accounts quarterly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, and shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may require. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall also appoint twelve commissioners, who shall be subject to the direction and control of the commissioner-general and perform from time to time such service as he shall require. The commissioner-general shall employ such number of experts as may be needed, having special attainments in regard to the subjects of the group or groups in said exposition to which they may be assigned, respectively, and he may employ from time to time such other experts as he may deem necessary in the preparation and installation of such exhibits. The commissioner-general shall be paid a salary of $8,000 per annum; the assistant commissioner-general a salary of $6,000 per annum; and the secretary a salary of $4,500 per annum; which said sums shall be in lieu of all personal expenses other than actual traveling expenses while engaged in exposition work; and the terms of service of the commissioner-general, assistant commissioner-general, and secretary shall not exceed three years. The commissioners herein provided for shall serve during the entire calendar year 1900, and they shall be paid for such service $3,000 each, which payments shall be in full for all compensation and personal and traveling expenses.

The necessary expenses herein authorized, and expenses for the proper installation and care of exhibits, together with all other expenses that may be authorized by the commissioner-general incident to the participation of the United States in said exposition, are hereby limited to the sum of not exceeding $650,000, including not exceeding $85,000 for clerk hire in the United States and in Paris. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to prepare suitable exhibits of agricultural products of the States and Territories of the United. States, including those mentioned in groups seven, eight, and ten ofthe plan of said exposition, and shall exhibit the same under the direction and control of the commissioner-general, the total expenses of the said exhibits not to exceed in the aggregate $75,000, to be paid out of the aforesaid sum of $650,000; and reports respecting such exhibits, printed in the English, French, and German 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 possession for H. Doc. 732- -113

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