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of our national liistoi'y» especially that of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippine 

 Islands and that part of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. 

 There shall be exhibited from the executive departments of the United States 

 such exhibits as will illustrate their principal administrative functions and their 

 educational value in connection with the development of commerce in the 

 countries bordering upon the Pacific Ocean ; the preservation of forests ; the 

 reclamation and irrigation of arid and semiarid lands; the improving and 

 enlarging of transportation facilities and the safeguards of navigation ; and the 

 economic value of the investigations and operations of the Government with 

 reference to public health, geology, experiment stations, coast and geodetic 

 survey, and public roads. To secure a complete and harmonious arrangement 

 of such government exhibit a United States Government board of managers is 

 hereby authorized to be appointed 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, the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Superintendent of the National 

 Museum, respectivelj% decide shall be embraced in the government exhibit 

 herein authorized. The President of the United States may also designate 

 additional articles of peculiar interest for exhibition in connection with the 

 said government exhibit. Said government board of managers shall be com- 

 posed of three persons now in the employ of the Government, and shall be 

 appointed by the President, one of whom shall be designated by the President 

 as chairman of the said board and one as secretary and disbursing officer. The 

 members of said government board, 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 fixed by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, while necessarily absent fi'om their homes engaged upon the business 

 of the board. Officers of the army and navy shall receive said allowance in 

 lieu of the subsistence and mileage now allowed by law ; and the Secretary of 

 War and the Secretary of the Navy may, in their discretion, detail retired 

 army and navy officers for such duty. Any provision of law which may pro- 

 hibit 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 said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Employees 

 of the board not otherwise employed by the Government shall be entitled to 

 such compensation as the board may determine, and such employees may be 

 selected and appointed by said board. The disbursing officer shall give bond 

 in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine for the faithful 

 performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by said Secretary. The 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said officer from time to time, under 

 such regulations as he may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation 

 for the government exhibit herein authorized, not exceeding at any one time 

 three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of 

 said exhibit as authorized by the United States Government board herein 

 created. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to 

 place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of his department, upon such 

 grounds as shall be allotted for this purpose, one of the life-saving stations 

 authorized to be constructed on the Pacific 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 life-saving stations in the United 

 States. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and 



