LX ACTS AISTD RESOLUTIONS OF OOKGRESS. 



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 its secretary, disbursing otiicer, and such other officers 

 as it ma}' deem necessar}'. The members of said board of n^anagement, 

 with other officers and employees of the Government who may be 

 detailed to assist them, including officers of the Army and Navy, shall 

 receiye no compensation in addition to their regular salaries, but they 

 shall be allowed their actual and necessary tray(ding <>xpejises, together 

 with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be lixed l)y the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, while necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon 

 the business of the board. Officers of the Army and Nayy shall 

 receive this allowance in lieu of the transportation and mileage now 

 allowtnl by law. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail 

 of persons in the employ of the TnitiMl States to other service than 

 that which they customaril}' perform shall not apply to persons 

 detailed for duty in cotmection with the Ohio Centennial and North- 

 west Territory Exposition. Employe(^s of the board not otherwise 

 employed b}- the Government shall be entitled to such compensation 

 as the board may determine. The disbursing officer shall give bond in 

 the sum of tweiity thousand dollars for the faithful performance of 

 his duties, said bond to be appro\'ed b}- the Secretar}' 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 for the Govern- 

 ment exhibit, not exceeding at an}' one time three-fourths of the pen- 

 alty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as 

 authorized by the board of management herein created. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building or buildings, from plans to be approved by the board of man- 

 agement, to be erected on the site selected at the Ohio Centennial and 

 Northwest Territor}^ Exposition for the Government exhibit; 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 contract for said building or buildings 

 shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, said sum 

 being hereb}^ appropriated for said purpose out of any money in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treasur}'^ 

 shall dispose of such building or buildings or the material composing 

 the same after the close of the exposition, giving preference to the city 

 of Toledo or the Ohio Centennial Company to purchase the sauK? at an 

 appraised value, to be ascertained in such manner as the President 

 and Secretary of the Treasury may determine; and whatever sum may 

 be so realized shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, 

 purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of 



