ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXXV 



Sec. 2. That tlu'i-e sliall be exhihiled at. said exposition by tlu; 

 Government of the United States from its Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, and the T^ibi-ary of 

 C'ouiiress sucli articles and material as illustrate the function and 

 administrative faculty of the (jovernment 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 ])eoi)le; and the 

 Bureau of American Republics is hereby invited to make an exhibit 

 illustrative of the resources and international relations of the Ameri- 

 ( an Kepublics, and space in the United States (iovernment building 

 ^hall be provided for that purpose, and to secure a complete and har- 

 monious arrangement of such (xovernment exhibit a United States 

 (iovernment boai-d shall be created, whose duty it shall be to select 

 from the Government exhibit to be made by such Elxecutive Depart- 

 ments at the city of Saint Louis, at the Louisiana Purchase Plxposi- 

 tion, in the year nineteen hundred and four, such articles and things as 

 they may deem advisable, and transport the same to the city of Port- 

 land, Oregon, to be there exhibited as a part of the Government 

 exhibit at said exposition ; and said United States Government boai-d 

 shall also be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, trans- 

 portation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such 

 additional articles and materials as the heads of the several depart- 

 ments, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Director of 

 the National Museum, the Librarian of Congress, and the Director 

 of the Bureau of American Republics may respectively decide shall 

 be embraced in said Government exhibit. And said Government 

 board is hereby authorized to rent and use such building or buildings 

 in the District of Columbia as may be necessary in the preparation 

 of said exhibit. The President of the United States may also desig- 

 nate additional articles for exhibition. Such Government board -^hall 

 be composed of one person to be named by the head of each of the 

 Executive Departments, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and National Museum, one by the Librarian of Congress, and one 

 by the Director of the Bureau of American Republics. The l^resi- 

 dent shall name one of said persons so 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 said (jrov- 

 crnment board, 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 they shall be allowed their actual and necessary trav- 

 eling 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 ui)()n the business of the board. Officers of the 

 Armv and Navv shall receive said allowance in lieu of the subsistence 



