WORDS AND PHRASES-Continued.

TO BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE

The appropriation of specific funds "to be immediately available" ordinarily imposes the duty of expending them for the purposes named in the act. 420.

WOOL.

The word "wool," as used in paragraph 297 of the tariff act of
1894, refers to hair of the sheep only, and the new duties upon
articles made of the hair of other animals went immediately
into effect upon the passage of the act. 66..

"Wool," within dictionary definitions, includes the hair of the
alpaca and of the angora goat, but never is used to include all
goats' hair, nor yet camels' hair, cow hair, or horsehair.
Throughout Schedule K of the above act it is used so as to
include even hair of the kinds first mentioned. Ib.
The phrase "manufactures of wool" in the above paragraph does
not include articles of which wool is a component material, but
of which it is not the material of chief value.

WRECK.

Ib.

The word "wreck" in section 4136, Revised Statutes, must be taken in a very comprehensive sense as applicable to a vessel which is disabled or rendered unfit for navigation, whether this state of the vessel has been caused by the winds or the waves, by stranding, fire, explosion of boilers, or by any other casualty. 198.

WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.

1. The question of drawbacks upon exhibits of foreign governments at the World's Fair is governed by the act of April 25, 1890, and not by section 3025, Revised Statutes. 36.

2. The Secretary of the Treasury has no authority to make distribution of the diplomas and medals directly to the exhibitors of the World's Columbian Exposition. 216.

3. The receipt and distribution by an authorized committee or subordinate body of the medals and diplomas awarded by the World's Columbian Commission are purely ministerial acts, involving no discretion. They could consequently be delegated by the commission, and, as they were so delegated, delivery can be made either to its executive committee or to the board of reference and control. Ib.

4. So much of section 3 of the act of August 5, 1892, as provides for the duplication of medals at the mints of the United States in gold or silver or brass was repealed by the act of March 3, 1893. 253.

5. After the exhibitors shall have received the medals and diplomas awarded them, the Treasury Department has not any authority to say what use shall or shall not be made of them, or to restrict the making or using of facsimiles of them by exhibitors to whom they have been awarded, beyond what is prescribed by the express provision of the statutes already referred to. 330. 10892-VOL 21, PT 3-19