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all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against 

 such articles and against the person who may be guilty of any illegal 

 sale or withdrawal. 



Sec. 11. That it shall be the duty of the national commission to 

 make reports monthly to the President of the United States, showing 

 receipts and disbursements and giving a general summary of the 

 financial condition of said exposition, and a final report within six 

 months after the close of the exposition, presenting the results and a 

 full exhibit thereof. 



Sec. 12. That the national commission hereby authorized shall cease 

 to exist on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and five. 



Sec. 13. That the United States shall not in any manner nor under 

 any circumstances be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, 

 or representations of the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com- 

 pany, its officers, agents, or employees, or any of them, or for the 

 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 corporation, or for any debts, liabilities, or 

 expenses of any kind whatever attending such corporation or accruing 

 by reason of the same. 



Sec. 14. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States from its Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the United States Com- 

 mission of Fish and Fisheries, and the Department of Labor, such arti- 

 cles and material as illustrate the function and administrative faculty 

 of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war power, 

 tending to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adapta- 

 tion to the wants of the people; and the Bureau of the American Repub- 

 lics is hereby invited to make an exhibit illustrating the resources and 

 international relations of the American Republics, and space in the 

 United States Government building shall be provided for the purpose of 

 said exhibit; and to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of 

 such Government exhibit a board, to be known as the United States 

 Government board, shall be created, independent of the commission 

 hereinbefore provided, to be charged with the selection, purchase, 

 preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, 

 exhibition, and return of such articles and material as the heads of the 

 several Executive Departments, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 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 Government 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 

 Executive Department, one by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, one by the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one by the 



