ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXV 



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

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

 detailed as chairman, and the board itself shall appoint it- secretary, 

 disbursing- officer, and such other officers as it may deem necessary. 

 The members of said board of management, 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 compensation 

 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 tixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, while 

 necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon the business of the 

 board. Officers of the Army and Navy shall receive this allowance in 

 lieu of the transportation and mileage now allowed by law. Any pro- 

 vision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ 

 of the United States to other service than that which the}- customarily 

 perform shall not apply to persons detailed for duty in connection 

 with the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Employees of the board 

 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 thirty 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 regulations as the Secretary of 

 the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation 

 hereafter to be made for the Government exhibit, not exceeding at 

 any one time the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the ex- 

 penses of exhibit as authorized by the board of management herein 

 created. 



Sec. 15. That the Secretary of the Treasury is nereby authorized 

 and directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of 

 his Department, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the pur- 

 pose, one of the life-saving stations authorized to be constructed on 

 the coast of the United States by existing law, and to cause the same 

 to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furniture, and appliances now 

 in use in all life-saving stations in the United States. 



Sec. lt». That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition for the Government exhibits, as provided in this 

 Act, 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 contracts for said building or 

 buildings shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 

 appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, to defray the expense of erecting said Government building or 

 buildings hereby authorized. The Secretary of the Treasury shall 

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