ACTS AND KESOLUriONS OF CONGRESS. XXXIX 



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

 committee of Conjrress shall be made on vouchers approved by the 

 chairman of said committee. 



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

 partment of Agriculture, Smitlisonian Institution, iind Commission of 

 Fish and Fisheries shall, from among the of'Hcers or employees thereof, 

 appoint a suitable person to act as representative of such Departnn'Ut 

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

 trol of the head of the De{)artmentor Bureau, supervise the preparation 

 and conduct of the exhibits herein provid 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 emi)loyment; but nothing herein shall be so construed as to pre- 

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

 tee, oftlcer, oremi)loyee apT)ointed or employed under and by virtue of 

 the provisions of this act. 



That all articles imported from the Republic of ^lexico or the Domin- 

 ion of Canada for the ])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. :}()) declariui,^ the true intent aii-l m<'anin<^ of the act 

 approved May twenty-oigbtli, eighteen hnmlred and eighty-eiglit. 



Resolved by the Senate and Mouse of Represenfafivcs of the United ''<tates 

 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 tlie United tStates, entitled " An 

 act making' appropriation to enable theseveral Executive Depaitments 

 of the (Tovernment, and the Bureau ot Agriculture, and the 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 eigiity-eight," that 

 the President of the Unitecl States may, in his discretion make an or.ler 

 directing" that any documents, i)apers, maps notoriginal, books or other 

 exhibits which properly ami jjertinently relate to the establishment of 

 civil government in the territory northwest of the Ohio Kiver, maybe 

 sent uiion an executive onler from any of the several Departments in 

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

 appropriation of money in said act to defray the exj)enses of sn<h ex- 

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

 States may direct, to the payment of the expenses of the care, trans- 

 portation to and return of such exhibits irom Marietta. Andthesame 

 shall be paid from such fund hrretofore set apart for each Department 

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

 strue<l as to j)revent the purchase of suitable materials, and the em- 

 ployment of proper persons, to complete or modify seri«\s of objects, and 

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

 ment such j)urchaseor employment, or both is necessary in the proper 

 preparation and conduct of an exhil)it. Nor to authorize the removal 

 from their places of deposit in Washington of any original paper or 

 document or laws or ordinances whatever. 



Approved, July 10, 1888. 



