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expense of selection, preparation, purchase, installation* transportation, care, custody, 

 ami safe return of exhibits by the < rovernment, for the employment of proper persons 

 as officers and assistants by the board <>f management created by this Act and for 

 their expenses, and forthe maintenance of the said building or buildings and other 

 contingent expenses, to be approved by the chairman of the board of management, 

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

 designate and the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized accounts and vouchers; 

 ami the total cost, of said building or buildings shall not exceed the sum of two 

 hundred thousand dollars; nor shall the expenses of said < rovernment exhibit for each 

 and every purpose connected therewith, including transportation, exceed the sum of 

 three hundred thousand dollars, amounting in all to not exceeding the sum of five 

 hundred thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in 

 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of live hundred thousand dollars, 

 or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of manage- 

 ment hereinbefore created, of which not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars 

 shall be expended for clerical service: Provided, That no liability against the < rovern- 

 ment shall be incurred, and no expenditure of money under this Act shall be made, 

 until the officers of said exposition shall have furnished the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury proofs to his satisfaction that there has been obtained by said exposition corpora- 

 tion subscriptions of stock in good faith, contributions, donations, or appropriations 

 from all sources for the purposes of said exposition a sum aggregating not less than 

 five hundred thousand dollars. 



Sec. 5. That medals, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions com- 

 memorative of said Pan-American Exposition, and of the awards to be made to the 

 exhibitors thereat, shall be prepared at some mint of the United States for the board 

 ni |: rs thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coin- 



jf eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment of a sum not less 

 than the cost thereof; and all the 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 struck ami issued under this Act. 



Sec. 6. That the United States shall not in any manner nor under any circum- 

 stances be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or. representations of said 

 Pan-American Exposition Association, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or 

 any of them, or for service, salaries, labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, 

 or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any 

 certificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said cor- 

 poration, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses of any kind whatever attending 

 such corporation, or accruing by reason of the same. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to create any liability of 

 the Jnited States, direct or indirect, for any debt or obligation incurred, nor for any 

 •laim for aid or pecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United 

 States in support or liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said commis- 

 sion in excess of appropriations made by Congress therefor. 



Sec 8. That the appropriation herein made of five hundred thousand dollars in all 

 shall take effect and become available immediately upon the passage of this Act. 



Approved, March :!, L899. 



