ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXXV 



Sec. 2. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the 

 Government of the [Jnited States from its Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, tl*e National Museum, and the Library of 

 Congress such articles and material as illustrate the function and 

 administrative faculty of the Oovernment in time of peace and its 

 resources as a war power, tending" to demonstrate the nature of our 

 institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people: and the 

 Bureau of American Republics is hereby invited to make an exhibit 

 illustrative of the resources and interiuitional relations of the Ameri- 

 ( an Republics, and space in the United States (xovernment building 

 shall be provided for that purpose, and to secure a complete and har- 

 monious arrangement of such Government exhil)it a United States 

 Government board shall be created, whose duty it shall be to select 

 from the Government exhibit to be made by such Executive L)e])art- 

 ments at the city of Saint Louis, at the Louisiana Purchase Ex[)osi- 

 tion, in the year nineteen hundred and four, such articles and things as 

 they may deem advisable, and transport the same to the city of Port- 

 land, Oregon, to be there exhibited as a part of the Government 

 exhibit at said exposition; and said United States (Tovernment boai'd 

 shall also be charged with the selection, purchase, prej^aration, trans- 

 portation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and I'cturn of such 

 additional articles and materials as the heads of the several depart- 

 ments, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Director of 

 the National Museum, the Lil)rarian of (\>ngress, and the Director 

 of the Bureau of American Kepublics may respectively decide shall 

 be embraced in said Government exhibit. And said Government 

 board is hereby authorized to rent and use such building or buildings 

 in the District of Columbia as may be necessary in the ])reparation 

 of said exhibit. The President of the United States may also desig- 

 nate additional articles for exhil)ition. Such Government board shall 

 be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the 

 Executive Departments, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and National Museum, one by the Librarian of Congress, and one 

 by the Director of the Bureau of American Re[)ublics. The Presi- 

 dent shall name one of said persons so detailed as chairman, and the 

 board itself shall a])point its secretary, disbursing officer, and such 

 other officers as it may deem necessary. The members of said Gov- 

 ernment board, with other officers and employees of the Government 

 who may bo detailed to assist them, including officers of the Army 

 and Navy, shall receive no com[)ensation in addition to their regular 

 salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and necessary tra^'- 

 eling expenses, together with a \)or diem in lieu of subsistence, to be 

 fixed by the Secretary of the Ti'casuiT, while nec(>ssarily al)sent from 

 their homes engaged ujion the business of the boai'd. Oflicers of the 

 Army and Navy shall receive said allowance in lieu of the subsistence 



