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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1749 
of said Government exhibit a board of management shall be created, 
to be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, arrangement, 
safe-keeping, and exhibition of such articles and materials as the heads 
of said Departments and institutions of the Government may, respec- 
tively, decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The 
President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such 
board shall be composed of one member to be detailed by the head of 
each Executive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution and National Museum, and one by the head of the United States 
Fish Commission; and the President shall name one of said persons so 
detailed as chairman; and the members of said board shall have no 
compensation in addition to their regular salary, and their actual and 
necessary expenses only shall be paid out of the sum hereinafter 
appropriated. 
Src. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 
building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the Tennes- 
see Centennial Exposition for the Government exhibit, and he is hereby 
authorized and directed to contract therefor, in the same manner and 
under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United 
States; but the contract for said building or buildings shall not exceed 
the sum of $30,000, and there is hereby appropriated for said build- 
ing or buildings, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, the sum of $30,000. The Secretary of the Treasury is 
authorized and required to dispose of such building or buildings, or 
the material composing the same, at the close of the exposition, giv- 
ing preference to the city of Nashville or to the said Tennessee Cen- 
tennial Exposition Company to purchase the same at an appraised 
value, to be ascertained in such manner as he may determine, and 
whatever sum may be realized on sale of said building shall be cov- 
ered into the Treasury of the United States. 
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, 
purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of 
said Government exhibit, and for the employment of proper persons 
as officers and assistants by the board of management created by this 
act and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building 
hereinbefore provided for, and for other contingent expenses inci- 
dental to the Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of 
the board of management and by the Secretary of the Treasury upon 
itemized accounts and vouchers, there is hereby appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum 
of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed 
by the board of management hereinbefore created, of which not 
exceeding the sum of $10,000 shall be expended for clerical service. 
Sec. 4. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 
tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which 
