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CONGRESS. (EXPOSITIONS.) 



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 sub- 

 sistence, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury, 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 provision of 

 law which may prohibit 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 connec- 

 tion with the Pan-American Exposition. Em- 

 ployees of the board not otherwise employed by 

 the* Government shall be entitled to such com- 

 pensation as the board may determine. The dis- 

 bursing officer shall give bond in the sum of 

 $20.000 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 appro- 

 priation for the Government exhibit, not exceed- 

 ing 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 board of 

 management herein created. 



" SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury 

 shall cause a suitable building or buildings to be 

 erected on the site selected for the Pan-American 

 Exposition for the Government exhibits, from 

 plans to be approved by the board, and he is 

 hereby authorized and directed to contract there- 

 for in the same manner and under the same regu- 

 lations as for other public buildings of the United 

 States; but the contract for said building or 

 buildings shall not exceed the sum of $200,000, 

 said sum being hereby appropriated for said pur- 

 pose, out of any money in the Treasury not other- 

 wise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury is authorized and required to dispose of such 

 building or buildings, or the material composing 

 the same, at the close of the exposition, giving 

 preference to the city of Buffalo or to the said 

 Pan-American Exposition Company to purchase 

 the same at an appraised value, to be ascertained 

 in such manner as may be determined by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 



" SEC. 4. That the United States shall not be 

 liable on account of said exposition for any ex- 

 pense incident to or growing out of same, except 

 for the construction of the building or buildings 

 hereinbefore provided for, and for the purpose of 

 paying the expense of selection, preparation, pur- 

 chase, installation, transportation, care, custody, 

 and safe return of exhibits by the Government, 

 for the employment of proper persons as officers 

 and assistants by the board of management cre- 

 ated by this act and for their expenses, and for 

 the maintenance of the said building or build- 

 ings and other contingent expenses, to be ap- 

 proved by the chairman of the board of manage- 

 ment, or, in the event of his absence or disability, 

 by such other officer as the board may designate, 

 and the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized 

 accounts and vouchers ; and the total cost of said 

 building or buildings shall not exceed the sum of 



200,000; nor shall the expenses of said Govern- 

 ment exhibit for each and every purpose con- 

 nected therewith, including transportation, ex- 

 ceed the sum of $300,000, amounting in all to not 



exceeding the sum of $500,000, which sum is here- 

 by appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- 

 ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500,- 

 000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to 

 be disbursed by the board of management herein- 

 before created, of which not Exceeding the sum 

 of $10,000 shall be expended for clerical service: 

 Provided, That no liability against the Govern- 

 ment shall be incurred, and no expenditure of 

 money under this act shall be made, until the 

 officers of said exposition shall have furnished 

 the Secretary of the Treasury proofs to his satis- 

 faction that there has been obtained by said ex- 

 position corporation subscriptions of stock in 

 good faith, contributions, donations, or appro- 

 priations from all sources for the purposes of 

 said exposition a sum aggregating not less than 

 $500,000. 



" SEC. 5. That medals, with appropriate devices, 

 emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of said 

 Pan-American Exposition, and of the awards to 

 be made to the exhibitors thereat, shall be pre- 

 pared at some mint of the United States for the 

 board of directors thereof, subject to the pro- 

 visions of the fifty-second section of the coinage 

 act of 1893, upon the payment of a sum not less 

 than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, 

 whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act 

 against the counterfeiting or imitation of coins 

 of the United States shall apply to the medals 

 struck and issued under this act. 



" SEC. 6. That the United States shall not in 

 any manner nor under any circumstances be liable 

 for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or repre- 

 sentations of said Pan-American Exposition As- 

 sociation, its officers, agents, servants, or em- 

 ployees, or any of them, or for service, salaries, 

 labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, 

 or employees, or any of them, or for any sub- 

 scriptions to the capital stock, or for any certifi- 

 cates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of 

 any kind issued by said corporation, or for any 

 debts, liabilities, or expenses of any kind what- 

 ever attending such corporation, or accruing by 

 reason of the same. 



" SEC. 7. That nothing in this act shall be so 

 construed as to create any liability of the United 

 States, direct or indirect, for any debt or obliga- 

 tion incurred, nor for any claim for aid or pecuni- 

 ary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of 

 the United States in support or liquidation of 

 any debts or obligations created by said com- 

 mission in excess of appropriations made by Con- 

 gress therefor. 



" SEC. 8. That the appropriation herein made 

 of $500,000 in all shall take effect and become 

 available immediately upon the passage of this 

 act." 



A similar act was passed and approved to en- 

 courage the holding of the Ohio Centennial and 

 Northwest Territory Exposition at Toledo. Mr. 

 Southard, of Ohio, said in explanation of it in 

 the House of Representatives: 



" Mr. Speaker, the idea of holding an Ohio cen- 

 tennial and Northwest exposition did- not origi- 

 nate in the city of Toledo, and I do not know 

 that it originated in the State of Ohio. For a 

 good many years the people of the State of Ohio 

 have been talking about some appropriate cele- 

 bration of the one hundredth anniversary of its 

 admission into the Union as a State. 



"In 1802 Ohio was admitted as a State. It 

 was the first State to be carved out of what was 

 known as the old Northwest, or the Northwest 

 Territory, which was, in a sense, the first public 

 domain of the United States. When Ohio was 

 admitted into the Union as a State she had 48,000 



