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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 Museum and 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. 
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 
building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the trans- 
Mississippi and international exposition for the Government exhibits, 
and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, in the 
same manner and under the same regulations as for other public build- 
ings of the United States; but the contract for said building or build- 
ings shall not exceed the sum of $50,000. 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, giving preference to the city of Omaha, or to the said 
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Association, to pur- 
chase the same at an appraised value to be ascertained in such manner 
as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
Sec. 5. The United States shall not be liable on account of said 
exposition for any expense incident to, or growing out of same, except 
for the construction of the building or buildings hereinbefore provided 
for, and for the purpose of paying the expense of transportation, care, 
and custody of exhibits by the Government, and the maintenance of 
the said building or buildings, and the safe return of articles belong- 
ing to the said Government exhibit, and other contingent expenses to 
be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized accounts 
and vouchers, and the total cost of said building or buildings shall not 
exceed the sum of $50,000; nor shall the expenses of said Government 
exhibit for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the 
transportation of same to Omaha and from Omaha to Washington, 
exceed the sum of $150,000, amounting in all to not exceeding the sum 
of $200,000: Provided, That no liability against the Government shall 
be incurred, and no expenditure of money under this act Shall be made, 
until the officers of said exposition shall have furnished the Secretary 
of the Treasury proofs to his satisfaction that there has been obtained 
by said exposition corporation subscriptions of stock in good faith, 
contributions, donations, or appropriations from all sources for the 
purposes of said exposition a sum aggregating not less than $250,000. 
Sec. 6. That the commission appointed under this act shall not be 
entitled to any compensation for their services out of the Treasury of 
the United States, except their actual expenses for transportation and 
a reasonable sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury for sub- 
sistence for each day they are necessarily absent from home on the 
business of said commission. The officers of said commission shall 
receive such compensation as may be fixed by said commission, subject 
