FIFTIETH CONGRESS, 1887-1889. Ned 
bureau wherever used herein shall be construed to include the Agri- 
cultural Department, the Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of 
Fish and Fisheries. ' 
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to 
detail an officer of the Pay Department of the Army or Navy to dis- 
burse the fund appropriated by this act. 
The payments on account of expenses incurred in carrying out and 
into effect the provisions hereof shall be made on itemized vouchers 
approved by the representative of the department incurring the lia- 
bility, and a person to be designated by the President to make final 
audit of said accounts: Provided, That payment of the expenses 
incurred by the committee of Congress shall be made on vouchers 
approved by the chairman of said committee. 
That the head of each of said Executive Departments and of the 
Department of Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, and Commission 
of Fish and Fisheries shall, from among the officers or employees 
thereof, appoint a suitable person to act as representative of such 
department or bureau, and said representative shall, under the direc- 
tion and control of the head of the department or bureau, supervise 
the preparation and conduct of the exhibits herein provided for. 
That no officer or employee appointed as aforesaid shall be paid 
extra or additional compensation by reason of services rendered in 
virtue of such employment; but nothing herein shall be so construed 
as to prevent the payment of the just and reasonable expenses of any 
committee, officer, or employee appointed or employed under and by 
virtue of the provisions of this act. 
That all articles imported from the Republic of Mexico or the 
Dominion of Canada for the purpose of being exhibited at said expo- 
sition shall be admitted free of duty, subject, however, to such condi- 
tions and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may impose 
and prescribe. 
(Stat., X XV, 159.) 
June 28, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. John Sherman, Mr. W. B. Allison, Mr. C. F. Manderson, Mr. 
A. H. Colquitt, and Mr. J. H. Berry, appointed by President of the 
Senate to attend the Ohio Exposition. 
June 28, 1888—House. 
Mr. B. Butterworth, Mr. W. M. Springer, Mr..W. C. P. Breckin- 
ridge, Mr. G. W. Steele, and Mr. M. H. Ford, by the Speaker of the 
House. 
July 16, 1888. 
Joint resolution. 
Resolved, etc., That it is the true intent and meaning of the act of 
Congress approved May 28, 1888, by the President of the United 
States, entitled ‘“‘An act making appropriation to enable the several 
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