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Commissioner of Labor, iind one hy the Director of the Bureau of 

 American Republics. The President shall name one of said persons yo 

 detailed as chairman, and the board itself shall appoint its secretary, 

 disbursing officer, and such other officers as it may deem necessary. 

 The members of *aid board of management, with other officers and 

 employees of the Government who may be detailed to assist them, 

 including- officers of the Army and Navy, shall receive no compensation 

 in addition to their regular salaries, but the}' shall be allowed their 

 actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in 

 lieu of subsistence, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, while 

 necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon the business of the 

 board. Officers of the Army and Navy shall receive this allowance in 

 lieu of the transportation and mileage now allowed by law. Any pro- 

 vision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ 

 of the United States to other ser^'ice than that which they customarily 

 perform shall not apply to persons detailed for dut\^ in connection 

 with the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Employees of the board 

 not otherwise employed by the Government shall be entitled to such 

 compensation as the board ma}' determine. The disbursing officer 

 shall give bond in the sum of thirty thousand dollai's for the faithful 

 performance of his duties, said 1)ond to be approved by the Secretary 

 of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said 

 officer from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of 

 the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation 

 hereafter to be made for the Government exhibit, not exceeding at 

 any one time the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pav the ex- 

 penses of exhibit as authorized by the board of management herein 

 created. 



Se(\ 15. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized 

 and directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of 

 his Department, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the pur- 

 pose, 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, find appliances now 

 in use in all life-saving stations in the United States. 



Sec. 10. That the Secretary of the Treasury' shall cause a suitable 

 l)uilding or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the Louisiana 

 Purchase 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 two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessar}^, is hereby 

 appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, to defray the expense of erecting said Government building or 

 buildings hereby authorized. The Secretary' of the Treasury shall 

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