FIFTIETH CONGRESS, 1887-1889. 1115 
invite the people of their respective States and Territories to assist in 
the proper representation of the productions of our industry and of 
the natural resources of the country, and to take such further measures 
as may be necessary in order to secure to their respective States and 
Territories the advantages to be derived from this beneficent under- 
taking. 
Src. 2. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, shall appoint a commissioner-general to represent the 
United States in the proposed exposition, and under the general direc- 
tion of the Secretary of State, to make all needful rules and regula- 
tions in reference to the contributions from this country, and to control 
the expenditures incident to the proper installation and exhibit thereof; 
the pay of jurors, and the preparation of the reports on the exposition, 
and the general results thereof; and an assistant commissioner-general 
to act under the direction of the commissioner-general, who shall 
perform the duties of commissioner-general in case of his death or 
disability; and that the President may also appoint as assistants to the 
commissioner-general nine scientific experts, corresponding to and 
specifically assigned to the nine groups into which the exposition will, 
under the official regulations be divided; that the allowance to said 
commissioner-general for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed 
$10,000 for his whole term of office; that the allowance of said assistant 
commissioner-general for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed 
$5,000 for his term of office, and the allowance of the nine scientific 
experts for salary and personal expenses shall not exceed $1,500 each, 
not including such clerical service as may be allowed by the commis- 
sioner-general, which shall not exceed $15,000. 
Src. 3. That in order to defray the necessary expenses above 
authorized, and for the proper installation of the exhibition, and the 
expenditures of the commissioner-general made under the direction of 
the Secretary of State, and with his approval, and not otherwise, there 
be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of 
the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $250,000, or 
so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes herein specified, 
which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 
State; the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to collect 
and prepare suitable specimens of the agricultural productions of the 
several States and Territories of the Union for exhibition at the Paris 
Exposition and accompany the same with a report respecting such 
productions, to be printed in the English, French, and German lan- 
guages, the expense of the same to be paid out of said appropriation. 
Src. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmit 
to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have 
been incurred under the provisions of this resolution, together with 
all reports called for under section 2 of this resolution, which reports 
