Excerpt from Report on the United States Government Exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, 1897 Joint Resolution providing for the publication of the report of the board of management of the United States Government exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars provided for in section three of the Act to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, approved December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be applied to the preparation of illustrations and the printing and binding at the Government Printing Office of six thousand copies of the report of the board of management of the United States Government exhibit at said exposition, under the direction of the chairman of said board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.