LXXVIIt ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OP CONGRESS. 



be Icnown as the Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar, struck in 

 commemoration of said exposition. The words, devices, and designs 

 upon said gold dollars shall be determined and prescribed by the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury, and all provisions of law relative to the coin- 

 age and legal-tender quality of all other gold coin shall be applicable 

 to the coin issued under and in accordance with the provisions of this 

 act. That the said coins shall be disposed of by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury to the said Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pa- 

 cific Exposition and Oriental Fair Company at par, under rules and 

 regulations and in amounts to be prescribed by him. That medals 

 with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative 

 of said Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and of the awards to 

 be jnade to the exhibitors thereat shall be prepared b}^ the Secretary 

 of the Treasury at some mint of the United States for the board of 

 directors of said exposition company, subject to the provisions of the 

 fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 three, and upon the payment of a sum not less than the cost thereof ; 

 and all provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act 

 against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States 

 shall apply to the medals issued under this act. 



Sec. 7. That the United States shall not be liable on account of said 

 exposition for any expense incident to or growing out of the same 

 except for the construction of the building or buildings hereinbefore 

 authorized and for the purpose of j)aying the expense incident to the 

 selection, preparation, purchase, installation, transportation, care, 

 custody, and safe return of the exhibits made by the Government, and 

 for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants by 

 the Government board created by this act and for other expenses, 

 and for the maintenance of said building or buildings and other con- 

 tingent expenses, to be approved by the chairman of the Government 

 board, or, in the event of his absence or disability, by such officer as 

 the board may designate, and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon 

 itemized accounts and vouchers: Provided, That no liability against 

 the Government shall be incurred and no expenditure of money ap- 

 propriated by this act shall be made until the officers of said exposi- 

 tion shall have furnished to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury proof that there has been obtained for the purpose of com- 

 pleting and opening said exposition bona fide subscriptions to the 

 stock of said exposition company by responsible parties, contributions, 

 donations, or a[)])i'opriations, from all sources, a sum aggregating not 

 less than six hundred thousand dollars. 



Sec. 8. That the United States shall not in any maimer or under 

 any circumstances he. lialile for any of the a(;ts, doings, or repre- 

 sentations of said Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific 



