156 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Institution, including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 

 should participate in said exhibition: Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled, That the head of each of the several Executive De- 

 partments of the Government, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian 

 Institution, including the National Museum, and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 

 under the direction of the President of the Uuited States, he, and they are hereby, 

 authorized and directed to prepare and make suitable exhibits at the said Centennial 

 Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States to be held at Cincinnati, beginning 

 on the fourth of July, and closing October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-eight. 



That there shall be appointed a committee of Congress composed of ten members, 

 five to be appointed by the President of the Senate and five by the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives. Said committee is authorized and directed to visit said 

 exposition, and make such report to Congress in that behalf as they may deem need- 

 ful and proper: Provided, That the President may, in the exercise of his discretion, 

 allow such documents and exhibits as relate to early settlement at Marietta, Ohio, 

 and the establishment of civil government in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio 

 River, to be taken to Marietta and exhibited during the time from July fifteenth to 

 nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive, under such restrictions and 

 custody as he may direct. 



That to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National 

 Museum and the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in said exposition 

 to be held as aforesaid, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated one hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred 

 and fifty dollars, apportioned as follows : 



For the War Department, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars 



For the Navy Department, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For the State Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. 



For the Treasury Department, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 



For the Interior Department, thirty-six thousand one hundred dollars. 



For the Department of Agriculture, twenty thousand dollars. 



For the Post-Office Department, five thousand dollars. 



For the Department of Justice, two thousand dollars. 



For the Smithsonian Institution, including the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 

 fifty thousand dollars. 



For the expenses of the committee of Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars. 



That the President may, if in his judgment it shall be deemed necessary and expe- 

 dient in order to secure the best results with greatest economy, transfer a part of the 

 fund hereby apportioned to one Department or Bureau to another Department or Bu- 

 reau. The term Bureau wherever used herein shall be construed to iucludethe Agri- 

 cultural Department, the Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries. 



That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to detail au officer of 

 the pay department of the Army or Navy to disburse the fund appropriated by this 

 act. 



The payments on account of the expenses incurred in carrying out and into effect 

 the provisions hereof shall be made on itemized vouchers approved by the representa- 

 tive of the Department incurring the liability, and a person to be designated by the 

 President to make final audit of said accounts: Provided, That payment of the ex- 

 penses incurred by the committee of Congress shall be made on vouchers approved 

 by the chairman of said committee. 



That the head of each of said Executive Departments and of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of Fish and Fisheries shall, 

 from among the officers or employees thereof, appoint a suitable person to act as rep- 



