646 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 546. 1898. · languages, shall accompany such exhibits, as the commissioner-general A¤¤·<>¤’i§¥. *0 Wm- may direct.- _A1l officers and employees of the Executive Departments 'i•i;:¤iix3`$?°n;i»:£ and of the Fish Commission and of the Smithsonian Institution, in ¤°¤'·¤·°°°· charge of or responsible for the safe-keeping of exhibits belonging to the United States, may permit such exhibits to pass out of their possession for the purpose of being transported to and from and exhibited at said exposition, as may be requested by the commissionergeneral, whenever authorized to do so, respectively, by the heads of the Departments and the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries and the secretary —r¤t¤r¤ ¤f· of the Smithsonian Institution; such exhibits and articlesto be returned to the said respective departments to which they belong at the close of mm- the exposition. It shall be the duty of the commissioner-general to report to the President, for transmission to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a detailed statement of the expenditures incurred hereunder during the twelve months preceding, and the commissioner-general is hereby required, within four months after the close of said exposition, to make full report of the results thereof, as herein . required, which report shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and convenient reference, and when printed shall not exceed six volumes octavo, containing an average of not exceeding 1*-¤1>¤‘¤v¤¤**i°¤· one thousand pages. Toward the expenses herein authorized, incident to the participation of the United State in said exposition, there is hereby appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended, of Em; =z¤i¤¤¤*·¤¤* *¤· which amount the sum of twenty thousand dollars may be used by the ` Secretary of Agriculture in the preparation of the agricultural exhibit herein provided for. m1m:¤;°$i¤¤¤¤ of Mr UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Bismarck. N-1>=¤k- For necessary repairs to buildings and grounds, making connection with the city water system, building new fence and making other urgent · improvements, for the United States at Bismarck, North Dakota, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. I-°€i“'“**"· UNDER LEGISLATIVE. statement of ¤pp¤» STATEMENT OF APPROPRuT10N : For preparation, under the direc- P“"‘"°“" tion of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the l<`ii'ty-fifth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth. eighteen hundred and eighty- eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the person designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. B¤m¤i·:G¤¤-¤i~¤·. BoTAN1o GARDEN: For reconstructing roofs of plant houses numbered one and two with iron sills and rafters and apertures, and for replacing roof of east end of main conservatory; new tin roof on pot- · ting and packing shed, new roof on plant house numbered four, new boiler for propagating house, south side Maryland avenue; repairs to heating apparatus and for painting and general repairs to buildings and foot walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. Svnuw- SENATE. PQ;:1*g¤jj0{;°f;;':;§°· For payment to the heirs at law of the Honorable James Z. George, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Mississippi, five _ thousand dollars, to be immediately available. p“¥;£:;tg·hgj¤’J,f*— For payment to the heirs at law of the Honorable Isham G. Harris, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Tennessee. five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
