LXXVI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



and inileaao now allowed by law; and the Secretarv of War and the 

 Secretary of the Navy may, in their discretion, detail retired army or 

 navy officers for such duty. An}^ provision of hiAV which may prohibit 

 the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to other service 

 than that A\hich they customarily perform shall not apply to persons 

 detailed for duty in connection Avith said Lewis and Clark Centen- 

 nial Exposition. Employees of the board not otherwise employed 

 by the Government shall be entitled to such compensation as the board 

 may determine, and such employees may be selected and appointed 

 b}^ said board. The disbursing officer shall give bond in such sum 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine for the faithful 

 performance of his duties, said bond to be approved b}'' said Sec- 

 retary. The Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said offi- 

 cer from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary 

 of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of mone}' from the appro- 

 priation for the Government exhibit herein authorized, not exceed- 

 ing at an}' one time three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to 

 enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as authorized by 

 the United States Government board herein created: Provided, That 

 so much of the Government exhibit herein authorized as relates to 

 forestry' and irrigation shall be made in a separate building, to 

 be erected as hereinafter provided for that purpose, and said build- 

 ing shall be known as the forestry and irrigation building, and 

 shall be of sufficient size to accommodate forestry exhibits other 

 than the United States forestry exhibits: And provided further^ That 

 the cost of said exhibit herein authorized, including the selection, 

 purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, 

 exhibition, and return of the articles and materials so exhibited, 

 including the forestry and irrigation exhibit, and for rent of building 

 or buildings in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed the sum 

 of two hundred thousand dollars, which amount is hereby appropri- 

 ated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to 

 aid the inhabitants of the district of Alaska in providing and main- 

 taining an appropriate and creditable exhibit of the products and 

 resources of said district at the said Lewis and Clark Centennial 

 Exposition, and for that purpose he is authorized to appoint one or 

 more persons to supervise the selection, purchase, preparation, trans 

 portation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and 

 return of such articles as may be exhibited from said district at said 

 exposition; and he is hereby authorized to select so much of the 

 exhibit of the district of Alaska at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion at the city of Saint Louis, in the year nineteen hundred and four, 

 as he may deem necessary fo'r the purpose of making said exhibit at 



