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To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast, and current and 
temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, and to transport the 
steamer Blake to Chicago and keep her there during the Columbian 
Exposition, for the purpose of exhibiting the instruments and methods 
of deep-sea sounding, $6,400. 
(Stat., XX VII, 356). 
Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation, 
transportation, installation, care and custody, and arrangement of 
such articles and materials as the heads of the several Executive 
Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, and National Museum, and 
the U. S. Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in the Goy- 
ernment exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may 
designate for said Exposition, and for the employment of proper per- 
sons as Officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Management 
of the Government exhibit, appointed by the President, of which not 
exceeding $5,000 may be expended by said board for clerical services, 
$408,250: Provided, That all expenditures for the purposes and from 
the appropriation specified herein shall be subject to the approval of 
the said Board of Control: and Management and of the Secretary of 
the Treasury, as now provided by law. 
World’s Columbian Commission: For the World’s Columbian Com- 
mission, $230,000, of which sum $110,000 shall be used for the Board 
of Lady Managers: Provided, That all expense of administration and ° 
installation in the Woman’s Building shall be paid by the World’s 
Columbian Exposition: Provided, That the salaries of the Director- 
General and Secretary of the Commission shall not exceed $8,000 and 
$3,000, respectively, per annum, and a sum not exceeding $5,000 may 
be used by the Director-General in his discretion for incidental and 
contingent expenses of his office, and there shall not be more than two 
meetings of the World’s Columbian Commission or of the Board of 
Lady Managers during the fiscal year 1893. 
And the sums herein appropriated for the World’s Columbian 
Exposition shall be in full of the liability of the United States on 
account thereof: Prowded, That the Government exhibits at the 
World’s Columbian Exposition shall not be opened to the public on 
Sundays. 
That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized at his 
discretion to detail for special duty, in connection with the World’s 
Columbian Exposition, such officers of the Army as may be required, 
to report to the general commanding the Department of the Missouri, 
and the officers thus detailed shall not be subject to loss of pay or 
rank on account of such detail, nor shall any officer or employee of 
the United States receive additional pay or compensation because of 
service connected with said Exposition from the United States or from 
said Exposition. 
(Stat., XX VII, 362.) 
