FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, 1897-1899. 18038 
said departments and institutions of the Government 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 member to be detailed by the head of each execu- 
tive department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and 
National Museum, one by the head of the United States Fish Commis- 
sion, one by the Commissioner of Labor, and one by the Director of 
‘the Bureau of 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 com- 
pensation in addition to their regular salaries, 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 allow- 
ance 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 cus- 
tomarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed for duty in con- 
nection with the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 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 exceeding 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 manage- 
ment herein created. 
Src. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 
building or buildings, from plans to be approved by the board of man- 
agement, to be erected on the site selected at the Ohio Centennial and 
Northwest Territory 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 $200,000, said sum being hereby appro- 
priated for said purpose out of any money in the Treasury not other- 
wise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treasury shall dispose of 
such building or buildings or the material composing the same after the 
close of the exhibition, giving preference to the city of Toledo or the 
