LXXVI ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



and mileage now allowed by law ; and the Secretary of War and the 

 Secretar}'^ of the Navy may, in their discretion, detail retired army or 

 navy officers for such duty. An}^ provision of law which may prohibit 

 the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to other service 

 than that ^^■hich they customaril}' perform shall not apply to persons 

 detailed for duty in connection Avith said Lewis and Clark Centen- 

 nial Exposition. Employees of the board not otherwise employed 

 by the Government shall be entitled to such compensation as the board 

 may determine, and such employees ]nay be selected and appointed 

 by said board. The disbursing officer shall give bond in such sum 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine for the faithful 

 performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by said Sec- 

 retary. The Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said offi- 

 cer from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary 

 of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money from the appro- 

 priation for the (irovernment exhibit herein authorized, not exceed- 

 ing at any one time three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to 

 enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as authorized b}' 

 the United States Government board herein created: Provided.) That 

 so much of the Govermnent exhibit herein authorized as relates to 

 forestry and irrigation shall be made in a separate building, to 

 be erected as hereinafter provided for that purpose, and said biiild- 

 ing shall be known as the forestry and irrigation building, and 

 shall be of sufficient size to accommodate forestry exhibits other 

 than the United States forestry exhibits: And fi'ovided further., That 

 the cost of said exhibit herein authorized, including the selection, 

 purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, 

 exhibition, and return of the articles and materials so exhibited, 

 including the forestry and irrigation exhibit, and for rent of building 

 or buildings in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed the sum 

 of two hundred thousand dollars, which amount is hereby appropri- 

 ated out of any money in the Treasury not otherAvise appro})riated. 



Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to 

 aid the inhabitants of the district of Alaska in providing and main- 

 taining an appropriate and creditable exhibit of the products and 

 resources of said district at the said Lewis and Clark Centennial 

 Ex]wsition, and for that purpose he is authorized to appoint one or 

 more persons to supervise the selection, pui-cliase, preparation, trans 

 ])()rtation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and 

 return of sUch ai-ticles as may be exhibited from said district a( said 

 exposition; and he is hereby authorized to select so much of the 

 exhibit of the district of Alaska at the Louisiana Purchase Exi)osi- 

 tion at the city of Saint Louis, in the year nineteen hundred and four, 

 as he may deem necessary for the purpose of making said exhibit at 



