230 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



National Museum, the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the Depart- 

 ment of Labor, and the Bureau of the American Republics, such articles and material 

 as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government in time of 

 peace, and its resources as a war power, and its relations to other American Repub- 

 lics, tending to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adaption to 

 the wants of the people. And to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of 

 such Government exhibit, a board of management shall be created, to be charged 

 with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, 

 exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several 

 Departments and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Commissioner of 

 Fish and Fisheries, the Commissioner of Labor, and the Director of the Bureau of 

 the American Republics may respectively decide shall be embraced in said Govern- 

 ment exhibit. The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. 

 Such board shall be composed of one person to be named by the head of each Execu- 

 tive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum, one by the head of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 

 one by the Commissioner of Labor, and one by the Director of the Bureau of the 

 American Republics. The President shall name one of said persons so detailed as 

 chairman, and the hoard itself shall appoint its secretary, disbursing officer, and 

 such other officers as it may deem necessary. The members of said hoard of man- 

 agement, 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 compensa- 

 tion in addition to their regular salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and 

 necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be 

 lixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, while necessarily absent from their homes 

 engaged upon the business of the board. Officers of the Army and Ni ' - 11 



receive this allow ance in lieu of the transportation and mileage now allowed 

 Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ of the 

 United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not 

 apply to persons detailed for duty in connection with the Pan-American Exposition. 

 Employees of the hoard not otherwise employed by the Government shall be entitled 

 to such compensation as the board may determine. The disbursing officer shall give 

 bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his 

 duties, said bond 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 regula- 

 tions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money from the 

 appropriation for the Government exhibit, not exceeding at anyone time three- 

 fourths of the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit 

 as authorized by the board of management herein created. 



Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 1 uilding or build- 

 inns to lie erected on the site selected for the Pan- American Exposition for the Gov- 1 

 ernment exhibits from plans to be approved by the board, 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 contract for said building 

 or buildings shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, said sum 

 being hereby appropriated for said purpose, out of any money in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required 

 to dispose of such building or buildings, or the material composing the same, at the 

 close of the exposition, giving preference to the city of Buffalo or to the said Pan- 

 American Exposition Company to purchase the same at an appraised value, to be 

 ascertained in such manner as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. -1. That the United States shall not be liable on account of said exposition for 

 any expense incident to or growing out of same, except for the construction of the 

 building or buildings hereinbefore provided for, and for the purpose of paying the 



