668 CONGKESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



the commissioner-general, shall preside, at all meetings of the commis- 

 sion, and to appoint committees and chairmen of groups. 



i. That the commission may designate additional persons, not ex- 

 ceeding twenty in number, being citizens of the United States, known 

 to be skilled in any branch of industry or art, who are hereby author- 

 ized to attend the exhibition in behalf of the United States, as honoraiy 

 commissioners without compensation. 



5. That the commission may employ a secretary and clerks for the 

 commission, the necessary scientific assistants and draftsmen, and may 

 engage suitable rooms for the commission. 



6. That no commissioner shall act as agent for the show or sale of 

 an}- article at the exhibition, or be interested, directly or indirectly, in 

 any profits from any such article. 



SEC. 2. And l>e it further resolved., That $50,000, or so much thereof 

 as may be necessary for the purposes severally specified, are hereby 

 appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated: 



For additional freights from New York to Havre. 



For transportation and freights from Havre to Paris. 



For return freight of articles owned by the United States or lent to 

 the Government by individuals. 



For marine and fire insurance on the articles thus lent. 



For additional steam power at Paris, in the ' ' palace " and the ' ' annex, " 

 or supplemental building, and in grounds adjacent. 



For the exhibition of machines, agricultural and other, and for the 

 erection of buildings to illustrate the education and agriculture of the' 

 United States, and for the collection of specimens of agricultural pro- 

 ductions, under the joint resolution for that purpose. 



For the necessary expense of collecting, classifying, labeling, and 

 packing mineralogical and metallurgical specimens, to complete the 

 exhibition of the mineral wealth of the United States. 



For the necessary expense of laborers and extra service in the 

 offices at Paris and New York, and for the expenses of a secretary, 

 clerks, scientific assistants and draftsmen, rooms, and other incidental 

 expenses of the commission. 



SEC. 3. And Tie itfurtJier resolved, That it shall be the duty of the 

 general agent at New York, and of the commissioner-general at Paris, 

 to transmit to Congress, through the Department of State, a detailed 

 statement of the manner in which the expenditures herein authorized 

 are made by them respectively. 



(Stat., XV, 19.) 



Havre International Maritime Exhibition. 



March 12, 1868. 



Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to 

 detail one or more officers of the Navy, as he shall think best, to be 



