1120 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
ments for holding said exposition, and are desirous—and it being fit 
and proper—that the several Executive Departments of the Govern- 
ment, the Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution, 
including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisher- 
ies, should participate in said exhibition: Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That the head of each of the several Executive 
Departments of the Government, the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum, and 
Commission of Fish and Fisheries, under the direction of the Presi- 
dent of the United States, be, and they are hereby authorized and 
directed to prepare and make suitable exhibits at the said Centennial 
Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to be held at Cin- 
cinnati, beginning on the 4th of July and closing October 27, 1888. 
That there shall be appointed a committee of Congress composed of 
ten members, five to be appointed by the President of the Senate and 
five by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Said committee 
is authorized and directed to visit said exposition and make such report 
to Congress in that behalf as they may deem needful and proper: /ro- 
vided, That the President may in the exercise of his discretion allow 
such documents and exhibits as relate to early settlement at Marietta, 
Ohio, and the establishment of civil government in the territory north- 
west of the Ohio River, to be taken to Marietta, and exhibited during 
the time from July 15th to 19th, 1888, inclusive, under such restric- 
tions and custody as he may direct. 
That to enable the several Executive Departments of the Govern- 
ment, the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, 
including the National Museum, and the Commission of Fish and Fish- 
eries, to participate in said exposition, to be held as aforesaid, there is 
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $147,750, apportioned as follows: 
For the War Department, $7,150. 
For the Navy Department, $15,000. 
For the State Department, $2,500. 
For the Treasury Department, $7,500. 
For the Interior Department, $36,100. 
For the Department of Agriculture, $20,000. 
For the Post-Office Department, $5,000. 
For the Department of Justice, $2,000. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, including the Commission of Fish 
and Fisheries, $50,000. 
For expenses of the committee of Congress, $2,500. 
That the President may, if in his judgment it shall be deemed nec- 
essary and expedient in order to secure the best results with greatest 
economy, transfer a part of the fund hereby apportioned to one 
department or bureau to another department or bureau. The term 
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