956 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



expenses of any kind beyond the amounts herein provided for shall be 

 incurred by any of the said Departments, or any officer thereof, on 

 account of said exposition. 

 (Stat., XXHI, 207.) 



March 3, 1885. 



Deficiency act for 1885, etc. 



Expenses of the United States Executive Departments at World's 

 Industrial Exposition at New Orleans: That any surplus arising from 

 appropriations made to either of the Departments by act of July 7, 

 1884, for participation in the World's Industrial Cotton Centennial 

 Exposition at New Orleans, may be used for the purpose of liquidating 

 the indebtedness of any other Department, subject to the provision 

 affecting the same in the sundry civil appropriation bill passed this 

 session. 



(Stat., XXIII, 467.) 



March 3, 1885. 



Sundry civil act for 1886. 



For final aid to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo- 

 sition, now being held in the city of New Orleans, in the State of 

 Louisiana, not to exceed the sum of $335,000, to be immediately 

 available, and to be used first in payment of the indebtedness now 

 outstanding of said exposition which is due to persons, firms, or corpo- 

 rations living and doing business outside of the State of Louisiana, 

 including debts due to foreigners or foreign nations, and such as are 

 due to States and Territories from said exposition; secondly, in pay 

 ment of all premiums heretofore awarded or which shall be hereafter 

 awarded by said exposition in accordance with the lists of awards 

 heretofore published; said money to be disbursed under the direction 

 of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make proper rules and 

 regulations for the form and verification of vouchers in proof of such 

 indebtedness, and shall detail a proper agent of his Department to 

 disburse said funds as directed by said Secretary, who shall make a 

 detailed statement of his transactions to the Treasury Department. 

 Also for the woman's department of the said exposition, $15,000. 

 And no part of the foregoing sums shall be paid until statements and 

 exhibits in detail satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury are 

 made of all expenditures under the appropriation made by act of May 

 21, 1884, and that said expenditures have been made for the purposes 

 and in the manner provided for in said act; and the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall report to Congress, at the beginning of the next session, 

 all such detailed statements made to him of the expenditures under 

 said appropriation and also under this appropriation; and the neces- 

 sary expenses of these examinations shall be paid from this appro- 

 priation. 



(Stat., XXIII, 512.) 



