RE SOLUTIONS. D¤¤¤¤l>¤1‘1°·mW- [No. 1.] Joint Resolution To pay the olfcers and employees of the Senate and H? House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, on the seventeenth day of said month. °“*°°”· °"°~°“’°“‘ Resolved the Senate and House of R esentatives of the United States $°€ei° Knprid bg? of America Congress assembled, Thatftjhle Secretary of the Senate and °°""’°" 17* lm"' the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, on the seventeenth day of said month. Approved, December 16, 1897. December 18.18W. [No. 2.] Joint Resolution Extending limit of cost of the Government building _;‘_"—;· or buildings at the Transmississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, and reducing cost of Government Exhibit. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 0¤¤¤¤¤ F$P°¤i*i¤¤- of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury ],`;’,}f°,;_¥g.§2· be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed and completed, at an additional cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars, cm-mmeui bum- the Government building at the Transmississippi and International “‘gS· Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, as shown and called for by the plans, drawings and specilications on which bids were taken for its erection, Amnm and so forth; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, further authorized and directed to cause to be erected at said Exposition a building tbr an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at a cost not to exceed for said building the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars; and to enable the Secretary of the Treasury umn or cost »:· to give effect to, and execute the provisions ot, this Act, the limit of ‘°““°d‘“'"‘ cost of the Government building or buildings authorized to be erected at said Exposition is hereby extended from fifty thousand dollars to sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the cost of the Government exhibit at said Exposition is hereby reduced from one hundred fifty thousand dollars to one hundred thirty-seven thousand ive hundred dollars. Approved, December 18, 1897. January 20, 1898. [No. 3.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Director of the Geological Survey to ·v‘*"‘—""` prepare a map of Alaska. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Alvks- of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the Geological {gsplemiggcvf ¤¤¤1> Survey is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a map of Alaska “ °' showing all known topographic and geologic features, including what is known of the gold-bearing rocks and a descriptive text of the same, the text to contain also an explanation of the best known routes and 732
