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Republics, tending to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and 
their adaption to the wants of the people. And to secure a complete 
and harmonious arrangement of such Government exhibit, a board of 
management shall be created, to be charged with the selection, pur- 
chase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibi- 
tion, and return of-such articles and materials as the heads of the 
several Departments and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, the Commissioner of Labor, 
and the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics 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 person to be named by the head of each 
Executive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution 
and National Museum, one by the head of the United States Commission 
of Fish and Fisheries, one by the Commissioner of Labor, and one by 
the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics. The President 
shall name one of said persons so detailed as chairman, and the board 
itself shall appoint its secretary, disbursing officer, and such other 
officers as it may deem necessary. The members of said board of 
management, with other officers and employees of the Government who 
may be detailed to assist them, including officers of the Army and 
Navy, shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular sala- 
ries, but they shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling 
expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be fixed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, while necessarily absent from their 
homes engaged upon the business of the board. Officers of the Army 
and Navy shall receive this allowance in lieu of the transportation 
and mileage now allowed by law. Any provision of law which may 
prohibit the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to 
other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply 
to persons detailed for duty in connection with the Pan-American 
Exposition. Employees of the board not otherwise employed by the 
Government shall be entitled to such compensation as the board may 
determine. The disbursing officer shall give bond in the sum of 
$20,000 for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be 
approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall advance to said officer, from time to time, under such 
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of 
money from the appropriation for the Government exhibit, not exceed- 
ing at any one time three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to enable 
him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as authorized by the board of 
management herein created. 
’ Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 
building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the Pan- 
American Exposition for the Government exhibits from plans to be 
