FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 424. 1899. 1117 DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Stggpvtlueut of CANADIAN COMMISSION: The appropriation of fifty thousand dollars c¤¤ta1¤¤ commamade by the deficiency appropriation Act, approved July seventh, 812,;, ,,_ ,,5,, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, *‘ For the expense on the part of the ’ ° United States of a joint commission to be appointed for the adjustment of diiierences between the United States and Great Britain in respect to the Dominion of Canada, including the compensation of the commissioners representing the United States, the pay of expert service for preparation of papers, for the portion of joint expenses chargeable to the United States, for printing and all other incidental expenses, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, to remain available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine," is hereby continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and said commission is also continued during said iiscal year. PARIS Ex1>0s1T1oN: For each and every purpose named in the para- P¤ri¤ F¤1><>¤i¤i<»¤· graph in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, A""' P' W" eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under the heading “Paris Exposition," seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which amount not Glo:-1: hm. exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dollars may be used for clerk hire in the United States and in Paris, and the limit of appropri- t Lift <>*' ·=¤1><·=¤d*· ations provided for in the provisions of said paragraph shall be extended ur °°r°°°°d` three hundred thousand dollars, or to nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars in all, said appropriation to be available until expended: Provided, That of said latter sum one hundred and fifty thousand £*·>*!*•*·-,t 1 dollars shall be for the exhibits by the Secretary of Agriculture pro- iiibiimu um "` vided for in said paragraphs. For the construction of necessary buildings in connection with said Aspnmprintion for exposition, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. l""' ““‘ For pay of jurors, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may Pu of .i¤¤>r¤- be necessary, to be available until expended; and the sums herein and heretofore appropriated on account of the Paris Exposition shall be in full of all appropriations to be made on account of said Exposition by Congress, and no deficiency shall be created therein. LAFAYETTE MONU1v1ENT :` For the purpose of aiding in defraying the !·=;f=¤y<>¤¤¤ r¤¤¤¤- cost of a pedestal, and completing in a suitable manner the work of °`K`,,g,,.,,,m,,.,,, g.,, erecting a monument in the city of Paris to General Lafayette, designed P°g(j;§j,_$j0,,m__ by the Lafayette Memorial Commission, as a feature of the participation of the United States in the Paris Exposition of nineteen hundred the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and is hereby authorized to purchase in the market twenty-five thousand dollars worth of silver bullion, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose herein provided for, from which there shall be coined at the mints of the United States silver dollars of the legal weight and lineness to the umnber of fifty thousand pieces, to be known as the Lafayette dollar, struck in commemoration of the erection of a monument to General Lafayette, in the city of Paris, France, by the youth of the United States, the devices and designs upon which coins shall be prescribed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and all provisions of law, relative to the coinage, and legal tender quality, of the present silver dollars shall be applicable to the coins issued under this Act, and when so coined, there is hereby appropriated from the Treasury the said fifty thousand of souvenir dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to place the same at the disposal of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, a commission organized under the direction and authority of the Commissioner—Genera1 for the United States to the Paris Exposition of nineteen hundred. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. *··*¤¤’·¤*¤ STATEMENT or nrnornurionsz For preparation, under the direc- ,,§,‘{;‘§,;'gf“°°'°PP” tion of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statement showing appropriations made, new
