1510 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Sec. 16. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Goy- 
ernment of the United States, from its Executive Departments, the 
Smithsonian Institution, the United States Fish Commission, and the 
National Museum, such articles and materials as illustrate the func- 
tion and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace 
and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the nature 
of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people; 
and to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of such a Goy- 
ernment exhibit, a board shall be created to be charged with the selec- 
tion, preparation, arrangement, safe-keeping, and exhibition of such 
articles and materials as the heads of the several departments and the 
directors of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum may 
respectively decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. 
The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. 
Such board shall be composed of one person to be named by the head 
of each Executive Department, and one by the directors of the Smith- 
sonian Institution and National Museum, and one by the Fish Com- 
mission, such selections to be approved by the President of the United 
States. The President shall name the chairman of said board, and the 
board itself shall select such other officers as it may deem necessary. 
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed 
to place on exhibition, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the 
purpose, one of the life-saving stations authorized to be constructed 
on the coast of the United States by existing law, and to cause the 
same to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furniture, and appli- 
ances now in use in all life-saving stations in the United States, said 
building and apparatus to be removed at the close of the exhibition 
and re-erected at the place now authorized by law. 
Src. 17. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 
building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the World’s 
Columbian Exposition for the Government exhibits, as provided in 
this act, and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, 
in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other pub- 
lic buildings of the United States; but the contracts for said building 
or buildings shall not exceed the sum of $400,000, and for the remain- 
der of the fiscal year and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, 
there is hereby appropriated for said building or buildings, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
$100,000. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the said build- 
ing or buildings to be contructed, as far as possible, of iron, steel, and 
glass, or such other material as may be taken out and sold to the best 
advantage; and he is authorized and required to dispose of such build- 
ing or buildings, or the material composing the same, at the close of 
the exposition, giving preference to the city of Chicago or to the said 
