ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XXXIX 



said accounts : Provided, That payment of the expenses incurred by the 

 committee of Congress shall be made on vouchers approved by the 

 «hairman of said committee. 



That the head of each of said Executive Departments and of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of 

 Fish and Fisheries shall, from among the officers or emi)loyees thereof, 

 ai)point a suitable person to act as representative of such Department 

 or Bureau, and said representative shall, under the direction and con- 

 trol of the head of the Department or Bureau, supervise the preparation 

 and conduct of the exhibits herein providi d for. 



That no officer or employee appointed as aforesaid shall be paid extra 

 or additional compensation by reason of services rendered in virtue of 

 such employment; but nothing herein shall be so construed as to pre- 

 vent the payment of the just and reasonable expenses of any commit- 

 tee, officer, orem])loyee appointed or employed under and by virtue of 

 tlie ])rovisions of this act. 



That all articles imported from the Republic of Mexico or the Domin- 

 ion of Canada for the i)urpose of being exhibited at said exposition 

 shall be admitted free of duty, subject, however, to such conditions and 

 regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may impose and prescribe. 



Approved, May, 28, 1888. 



JOINT RESOLUTION (No. 30) declaring the true inteut an. I meaning of the act 

 approved Ma^' twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That it is the true intent and meaning 

 of the act of Congress approved May twenty eighth, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-eight, by the President of the United States, entitled " An 

 act making appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments 

 of tlie Government, and the Bureau ot Agriculture, and tiie Smithsonian 

 Institution, including the National Museum and the Commission of Fish 

 and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio 

 Valley and Central States, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July 

 fourth to October seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight," that 

 the President ofthe United States may, in his discretion make an order 

 directing that any documents, papers, maps notoriginal, books or other 

 exhibits which properly and ])ertinently relate to the establishment of 

 eivil government in the territory northwest of the Ohio River, maybe 

 sent upon an executive order from any of the several Departments in 

 said act named, or from the exhibits now at Cincinnati, and that the 

 appropriation of money In snid act to defray the expenses of such ex- 

 hibits, may be made applicable, in so far as the President ofthe United 

 States may direct, to the i)ayment of the expenses of the care, trans- 

 portation to and return of such exhibits from Marietta. And the same 

 shall be paid from such fund heretofore set apart for each Dei)artment 

 as the President may order. Nor shall anything in said act be so cou- 

 strued as to prevent the ])urchase of suitable materials, and the em- 

 ployment of proper persons, to complete or modify series of objects, and 

 classes of specimens, when in the judgment ofthe head of any Depart- 

 ment such purchase or employment, or both is necessary in the proper 

 preparation and conduct of an exhibit. Nor to authorize the removal 

 from tluMr places of dei)osit in Washington of any original paper or 

 document or laws or ordinances whatever. 



Approved, July 10, 1888. 



