LXII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



pared at some mint in the United States for the board of directors 

 thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coin- 

 age Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment by 

 the Ohio Centennial Company of a sum not less than the cost thereof; 

 and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinag'e Act 

 against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States 

 shall apply to the medal struck and issued under this Act. 



Si:c. (). That the United States shall in no manner and under no cir- 

 cumstances be liable for any bond. del)t, contract, expenditure, expense, 

 or liability of any kind whatever of the said Ohio Centennial Companj-, 

 its officers, agents, servants, or emplovees, or incident to or growing out 

 of said exposition, nor for an}' amount whatever in excess of the five 

 hundred thousand dollars herein authorized; and the heads of the 

 Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum, the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the Department of 

 Labor, and the Bureau of American Republics, and the board of man- 

 agement herein authorized, their ofiicers, agents, servants, or employees, 

 shall in no manntM- and under no circumstances expend or create any 

 liability of any kind for anj^ sum in excess of the appropriations herein 

 made or create any deficiency. 



Sec. 7. That at the close of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Ter- 

 ritory Exposition the exhibits of the United States Government shall 

 be returned to the several departments or bureaus from which they 

 were received; and such collections as may be acquired by the l)oard 

 by purchase, preparation, gift, or othei-wise, illustrating the natural 

 resources, industries, customs, and commerce of the other American 

 Republics, shall be placed for permanent preservation in the United 

 States National Museum. 



Sec. S. That the appropriation herein made, of five hundred thousand 

 dollars in all, shall take effect and become available immediately upon 

 the proof being made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury that the conditions prescribed in section three of this Act have been 

 complied with. 



(Approved, March 3, 1899. Statutes, XXX, 1346.) 



LAFAYETTE MOXUMENT. 



Lafayette Monument. — For the purpose of aiding in defra3nng the 

 cost of a pedestal, and completing in a suitable manner the work of 

 erecting a monument in the city of Paris to General Lafayette, designed 

 by the Lffayette Memorial Commission, as a feature of the participa- 

 tion of the United States in the Paris Exposition of nineteen hundred 

 the Secretary of the Treasury" shall be, and is hereby authorized to 

 purchase in the market twenty-five thousand dollars worth of silver 

 bullion, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose herein 



