FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, 1897-1899. 1805 
to the Treasury of the United States by the Ohio Centennial Com- 
pany, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 
Src. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 
tions commemorative of said Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 
Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be pre- 
pared at some mint in the United States for the board of directors 
thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coin- 
age act of 1893, upon the payment by the Ohio Centennial Company 
of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether 
penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or 
imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medal struck 
and issued under this act. 
Src. 6. That the United States shall in no manner and under no cir- 
cumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, 
or liability of any kind whatever of the said Ohio Centennial Company, 
its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing 
out of said exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess of the 
$500,000 herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Depart- 
ments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, the Com- 
mission of Fish and Fisheries, the Department of Labor, and the 
Bureau of American Republics, and the board of management herein 
authorized, their officers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no 
manner and under no circumstances expend or create any liability of 
any kind-for any sum in excess of the appropriations herein made, or 
create any deficiency. 
Src. 7. That at the close of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Ter- 
_ ritory Exposition the exhibits of the United States Government shall 
be returned to the several departments or bureaus from which they 
were received; and such collections as may be acquired by the board 
by purchase, preparation, gift, or otherwise, illustrating the natural 
resources, industries, customs, and commerce of the other American 
Republics shall be placed for permanent preservation in the United 
States National Museum. 
Src. 8. That the appropriation herein made, of $500,000 in all, shall 
take effect and become available immediately upon the proof being 
made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury that the con- 
ditions prescribed in section three of this act have been complied with. 
(Stat., XXX, 1346.) 
OWEN STATUE. 
July 19, 1897—House. 
Mr. J. A. Hemenway introduced bill (H. 3901) for the erection 
of a statue of the late Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, to be placed in 
the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
