ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXXVII 



the Lewis and Clark Gentennial Exposition, and that the cost of said 

 exhibit of said district of Ahiska, including such selection, purchase, 

 preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, 

 exhibition, and return of the articles so exhil)ited shall not exceed 

 the sum of twenty-tive thousand dollars, which suui is hereby appro- 

 priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 yjriated. 



Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building or buildings to l)e erected on the site selected for the Lewis 

 and Clark Centennial Exposition for the said (Tovernment exhibit, 

 including a suitable building for an exhil)it of the United States Life- 

 Saving Service, the forestry and irrigation building herein referred 

 to, and also cause to be erected a suitable building or buildings on 

 said site for the use of the district of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, 

 the Philippine Islands, and also oriental and oceanic countries that 

 may desire an exhibit of their products and resources at said expo- 

 sition. Said buildings shall be erected from plans prepared by the 

 Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to be approved by said United 

 States Government board ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is 

 hereby authorized and directed to contract for said buildings in the 

 same manner and under the same regulations as for other public 

 buildings of the L^nited States, but the contract for said buildings 

 and the preparation of grounds therefor and the lighting thereof, 

 inclusive, shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treasury 

 is authorized and required to dis])()se of said buildings, or the mate- 

 rials composing the same, at the close of the exposition, giving prefer- 

 ence to the city of Portland, or to the said Lewis and Clark Centen- 

 nial and American and Pacific Exposition and Oriental Eair cor- 

 poration, to purchase the same at an appraised vahie to be ascertained 

 in such manner as tlie Secretary of the Treasury may detei'uiine. 



Sec. 5. That the allotment of space for exhibitoi's in the building 

 or buildings erected und(M- authority of this act for the use of the dis- 

 trict of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, and 

 also for the use of orieutal and oceanic countries, including the space 

 not occupied by the (lovermnent board in the foresti'y and irrigation 

 building, shall be done and performed without charge to cxhibitoi's 

 by the Government board autliorized by section two of this act. 



Sec. C). That upon th(> a|)i)roval o\ this act the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall, uj)on tlic re(|uest of the Lewis and Clark Centennial 

 and American Pacific P]x})osition and Oriental Eair Company, cause 

 to be coined at the mints of the United States not to exceed two hun- 

 dred and fifty , thousand gold dollars, of legal weight and fineness, to 



