XXXVIII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



liabilities, or expeuses of any kind whatever attending such corporation 

 or accruing by reason of the same. 



Sec. 16. That there siiall be exhibited at said exposition by the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, from its Executive Departments the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the United States Fish Commission, and the 

 National Museum, such articles and materials as illustrate the func- 

 tion and administrative faculty of the Government 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 to 

 secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of such a Government 

 exhibit, a board shall be created to be charged with the selection, prep- 

 aration, arrangement, safe-keeping, and exhibition of such articles and 

 materials as the heads of the several Departments and the directors of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum may respectively 

 decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President 

 may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall 

 be composed of one person to be named by the head of each Executiv^e 

 Department, and one by the directors of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the National Museum, and one by the Fish Commission, such se- 

 lections to be approved by the President of the United States. The 

 President shall name the chairman of said board, and the board itself 

 shall select such other officers as it may deem necessary. 



That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed 

 to place on exhibition, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the 

 purpose, one of the life-saving stations authorized to be constructed on 

 the coast of the United States by existing law, and to cause the same 

 to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furniture, and appliances now 

 in use in all life-saving stations in the United States, said building and 

 apparatus to be removed at the close of the exhibition and re-erected 

 at the place now authorized by law. 



Sec. 17. That the Secretary ot the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the World's 

 Columbian Exposition for the Government exhibits, as provided in this 

 act, and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, in 

 the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public 

 buildings of the United States; but the contracts for said building or 

 buildings shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, 

 and for the remainder of the fiscal year and for the year ending June 

 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, there is hereby appropri- 

 ated for said building or buildings, out of any money in the Treasur^'^ 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. 

 The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the said building or build- 

 ings to be constructed as far as possible, of iron, steel, and glass, or of 

 such other material as may be taken out and sold to the best advantage ; 

 and he is authorized and required to dispose of such building or build- 

 ings, or the material composing the same, at the close of the exposition, 

 giving preference to the city of Chicago, or to the said World's Expo- 

 sition of eighteen hundred and ninety-two to purchase the same at an 

 appraised value to be ascertained in such manner as he may deterrnine. 



Sec. 18. That for the purpose of i)aying the expenses of transporta- 

 tion, care, and custody of exhibits by the Government and the main- 

 tenance of the building or buildings hereinbefore provided for and the 

 safe return of articles belonging to the said Government exhibit, and 

 for the expenses of the commission created by this act, and other con- 

 tingent expenses, to be approved 1)%^ the Secretary of the Treasury, upon 

 itemized accounts and vouchers, there is hereby appropriated for the 



