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dividend or percentage of profits or assets shall be paid to the holder* 

 of said stock ^or contributors: Provided further, That the Government 

 of the United States shall not, under any circumstances, be liable for 

 any debt or obligation created or incurred by the World's Industrial 

 and Cotton Centennial Exposition, or its board of management or for 

 any sum whatever in addition to the amount appropriated by this act- 

 and that adequate space to be determined by the President of the United 

 btates for such exhibits as the Government of the United States may 

 see proper to make at said exposition shall be furnished free of all 

 charge by said board: Provided further, That no sum shall be paid to 

 the said board of management of said exposition until after the presi- 

 dent, secretary, and a majority of the members of said board shall 

 have executed a bond, with good and solvent security, to be approved 

 by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the sum of $300,000, to sufficiently 

 secure the safe-keeping and the faithful disbursement of the sum 

 hereby appropriated, and for the faithful observance of this act with 

 regard to the limitation of expenditures and liabilities as fixed herein, 

 and for the repayment to the Government of the United States of the 

 surplus of proceeds of said exposition remaining after payment of the 

 current expenses of administration, said repayment in no case to exceed 

 the loan herein appropriated and provided for: And prwided further, 

 That the receipt of the loan herein made or any part thereof by said 

 board of management shall be a full acceptance of all the trusts, con- 

 ditions, provisions, and obligations of this act by the said board of 

 management and by the corporation created under the laws of the State 

 of Louisiana and designated as "The World's Industrial Cotton Cen- 

 tennial Exposition." 

 (Stat, XXHI, 28.) 

 July 7, 1884. 



Sundry civil act for 1885. 



To enable the several Executive Departments, the Department of 

 Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the 

 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, under act of Congress of February 10, 1883, as 

 follows: For the War Department, $15,000; for the Navy Depart- 

 ment, $10,000; for the State Department, $10,000; for the Treasury 

 Department, $12,000; for the Interior Department, $125,000; for 

 the Post-Office Department, $10,000; for the Department of Agri- 

 culture, $25,000; for the Department of Justice, $3,000; for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution (including the National Museum and Commission 

 of Fish and Fisheries), $75,000; for necessary incidental expenses of 

 administration by the board, including office rent, fuel, gas, stationery, 

 telegrams, and expressage, $15,000; in all, $300,000, to be disbursed 

 under the direction of the Board on United States Executive Depart- 

 ments appointed under Executive order of May 13, 1884; and no 



